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Author: Margaret Frith Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0448437651 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! Here’s an accessible, appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Hourly History Publisher: Hourly History ISBN: 1520674465 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 51
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Thomas Edison passed on many decades ago, but his inventions still echo loudly through time. If you watch TV, listen to your favorite songs, or simply click on the lamp next to your bed, it was Thomas Edison who brought all of these innovations into the world. Inside you will read about... ✓ Edison's Early Life ✓ The Electric Light ✓ The War of the Currents ✓ Other Inventions and Projects ✓ Final Years and Death ✓ Edison's Legacy And much more! Edison is sometimes regarded as someone who loved arguing with other inventors who were going in different directions from him, yet his tenacity and dedication to his own work were what made so many of his inventions workable. No matter which way you look at Edison, from failed businessman, renowned inventor, distant father to his children, or to an argumentative scientist, there is one thing everyone can agree on; Thomas Edison was pure genius. After all, in his world, nothing less would do.
Author: Randall E. Stross Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1400047633 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 394
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Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison’s name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But as Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most globally famous of all Americans, Thomas Edison’s greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was certainly a technical genius, but Stross excavates the man from layers of myth-making and separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures. How much credit should Edison receive for the various inventions that have popularly been attributed to him—and how many of them resulted from both the inspiration and the perspiration of his rivals and even his own assistants? This bold reassessment of Edison’s life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to conjure similar success. We also meet his partners and competitors, presidents and entertainers, his close friend Henry Ford, the wives who competed with his work for his attention, and the children who tried to thrive in his shadow—all providing a fuller view of Edison’s life and times than has ever been offered before. The Wizard of Menlo Park reveals not only how Edison worked, but how he managed his own fame, becoming the first great celebrity of the modern age.
Author: Gene Adair Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195087992 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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Details the life and work of Thomas Edison, who developed the electric light bulb and over 1000 patents for other inventions and innovations.
Author: Douglas Hustad Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 1680772376 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 51
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Learn about the great scientist Thomas Edison as he invented the light bulb. You'll read about his life, the science behind his studies, and the impact of his work on the world today.
Author: Amy Graham Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 9781598450521 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Explores the life and work of Thomas Edison, including his childhood, education, and invention of such items as the phonograph, light bulb, and kinetoscope.
Author: Carol Greene
Author: Carol Greene
Author: Margaret Frith
Author: Charles E. Pederson
Author: Hourly History
Author: Scott R. Welvaert
Author: Mervyn D. Kaufman
Author: Randall E. Stross
Author: Gene Adair
Author: Douglas Hustad
Author: Amy Graham