Never Give Up by Ernestine Tito Jones

Author:Ernestine Tito Jones [Jones, Ernestine Tito]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: B. Possible Publishing

Chapter Ten

Hazel wanted to tell her little sister that she thought the other stranger was probably their grandfather. She also wanted to ask Francis more questions about the stranger’s visit, but she decided to wait until the right time. She wasn’t exactly sure how to do it without making Francis very suspicious.

Francis pointed to a small shack around the back of the house. “This is the glassblower’s shop,” he said.

“The what?” Bess asked, pressing her face against the window of the small shack so she could see inside.

“The glassblower makes glass in whatever shape Mr. Edison tells him to make, and whenever he needs it,” Francis replied. “Back there’s the machine shop. When Mr. Edison draws up plans for an invention, he gives them to the machinist, and he makes whatever Mr. Edison wants right here on the property.”

“Wow,” Hazel said, thinking back on her report. She wrote about Thomas Edison’s inventions, but she never knew this much went into them. “I had no idea so many people worked with Mr. Edison.”

“Look around,” Francis said. “We all work for him. Chemists, physicists, mathematicians, assistants, and right now, one of our main jobs is to perfect the incandescent lamp.”

Bess pulled her face from the glass of the shack and looked at Francis. “You keep saying that, but what is an in-can-sent lamp?”

Hazel whispered in her ear. “I think he’s talking about the light bulb,” she said. “Mr. Edison’s most famous invention.”

“A light bulb? All this for a light bulb?” Bess yelled. Francis laughed.

Bess was right. There was a lot going on. And all to make one little light bulb.

Francis went on. “We work all day and a lot of the night too. Mostly we’ve had failures. But today… it was all worth it.” Francis gestured for the girls to follow him along the path. “Come on. Let’s go inside, and I’ll show you.”

They walked onto the porch of the large white house. Francis stopped just before he opened the door. “This may seem like a lot of work for just a light bulb, but it’s actually a lot more than that. It’s about figuring out electricity, and ways to use it safely in your house. Pretty soon, people will be able to just flip a switch and have a light come on. Can you imagine it?”

Bess smirked. “Uh yeah…”

“And a practical light bulb that’s cheap to produce, lasts a long time, and won’t be too bright for inside the house is the first step,” he said, opening the door.

The smell of machine parts and chemicals poured out from the house when the door opened. Hazel blinked to allow her eyes to adjust before stepping inside. Looking around, she couldn’t believe it. She’d never seen anything like it before.

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