Author: Edmund Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 081299311X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Edison
Author: Edmund Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 081299311X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 081299311X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Timeless Thomas
Author: Gene Barretta
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466816848
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison. Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America's most important inventors.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466816848
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison. Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America's most important inventors.
Thomas Edison
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: Hourly History
ISBN: 1520674465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Hourly History
ISBN: 1520674465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
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.
Inventing the Future
Author: Marfe Ferguson Delano
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426322208
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Presents a biography of Thomas Edison, illustrated with photos of his life and inventions.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426322208
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Presents a biography of Thomas Edison, illustrated with photos of his life and inventions.
The Story of Thomas A. Edison
Author: Frances M. Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616341596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616341596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Outside Books Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison
Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321500
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sides (contributing editor, Outside) fields questions from readers of his column "The Wild File." Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection includes questions about the strange doings of the natural world. Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're chewing down? What good are goosebumps? Why do men have nipples? How do penguins keep their feet from freezing? Why do llamas spit? c. Book News Inc.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321500
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sides (contributing editor, Outside) fields questions from readers of his column "The Wild File." Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection includes questions about the strange doings of the natural world. Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're chewing down? What good are goosebumps? Why do men have nipples? How do penguins keep their feet from freezing? Why do llamas spit? c. Book News Inc.
The Thomas Edison Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments
Author: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A collection of science and engineering projects and experiments covering such areas as magnetism, electricity, electrochemistry, chemistry, physics, energy and radioactivity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A collection of science and engineering projects and experiments covering such areas as magnetism, electricity, electrochemistry, chemistry, physics, energy and radioactivity.
Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
Author: Ian Wills
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030299406
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the author argues that not only should we expect innovations to fail but that there are good reasons to want them to fail. Using Edison's laboratory notebooks, written as he worked and before he knew the outcome we see the many false starts, wrong directions and failures that he worked through on his way to producing revolutionary inventions. While Edison's strengths in exploiting failure made him the icon of American inventors, they could also be liabilities when he moved from one field to another. Not only is this book of value to readers with an interest in the history of technology and American invention, its insights are important to those who seek to innovate and to those who employ and finance them.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030299406
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the author argues that not only should we expect innovations to fail but that there are good reasons to want them to fail. Using Edison's laboratory notebooks, written as he worked and before he knew the outcome we see the many false starts, wrong directions and failures that he worked through on his way to producing revolutionary inventions. While Edison's strengths in exploiting failure made him the icon of American inventors, they could also be liabilities when he moved from one field to another. Not only is this book of value to readers with an interest in the history of technology and American invention, its insights are important to those who seek to innovate and to those who employ and finance them.
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823412464
Category : Electric engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items."--Title page verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823412464
Category : Electric engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items."--Title page verso.
Thomas Edison: World-Changing Inventor
Author: Katherine Krieg
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1629686891
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison influenced the world. His most notable achievements, the motion picture camera and the light bulb, are used millions of times each day. This title includes primary sources, sidebars, prompts and activities, charts and graphs, and much more. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1629686891
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison influenced the world. His most notable achievements, the motion picture camera and the light bulb, are used millions of times each day. This title includes primary sources, sidebars, prompts and activities, charts and graphs, and much more. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.