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Dec 29, 2005 | ISBN 9780448437651 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Dec 29, 2005 | ISBN 9781101639924 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Mar 26, 2019 | 62 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Dec 29, 2005 | ISBN 9780448437651 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Dec 29, 2005 | ISBN 9781101639924 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Mar 26, 2019 | ISBN 9780525629511 | Middle Grade (8-12)
62 Minutes
A curious child who fed worms to a friend to see if she would fly like a birdA boy who left school at the age of twelve and was hard of hearing all his lifeThe man who changed the world when he invented the electric lightbulb
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.
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! An accessible, appealing biography of the inventor.
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Margaret Frith is the author of numerous children’s books, including several titles in the Who Was? series, such as Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Who Was Louis Braille?, Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? and Who Was Woodrow Wilson? She lives in… More about Margaret Frith
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