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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Biography & Autobiography > General
Author:
Frith, Margaret
Illustrator::
John O'Brien
ISBN 10:
0448437651
ISBN 13:
9780448437651
Price:
USD $5.99
Publication Year:
2005

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Penguin Random House.

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Book Description

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.