Movies like The Girl He Left Behind

A chemist has invented an apparatus for illuminating purposes. He falls asleep over his work. A letter comes to him from a company offering him a price for his invention. He goes to the company's office where in excitement he mixes the wrong gases. There is an explosion. Dejected he returns to his garret and there finds the cause of his failure. He prepares to return to the company's office when he is met at his door by friends who have been searching for him for years. The president and directors of the company are summoned to the inventor's garret where a successful demonstration is made and Abel is reunited to "The Girl He Left Behind."