Note: US playwright, translator, and author --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute (paraphrase) Nine Tom Edison, Jr. stories were written by Philip Reade, probably a pseudonym. ... "Tom Edison, Jr. stories #10 and #11, Tom Edison, Jr.'s Air-Ship in Australia (1892) and Tom Edison, Jr.'s Electric Eagle (1892), were written, on a much lower level, by Henry Livingston Williams, a prolific hack editor and author." --SFE3, Philip Reade biographical entry by E. F. Bleiler