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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

Name: Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
ISBN: 9780448437651

Margaret Frith

Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · December 29, 2005

Reading lane: Science & Tech Biographies for Kids

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Bright Ideas, Human Scale

A life of inventions, electric light, and childhood curiosity, told on a human scale.

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A child-friendly path into inventions and electricity
The curious, startling side of a famous inventor

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An accessible biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations
Edison’s inventions alongside his early curiosity

Book Details

Authors: Margaret Frith
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: December 29, 2005
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Science & Tech Biographies for Kids · Inventions
Reading lane: Science & Tech Biographies for Kids

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Inventions

About This Book

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 biog...

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