Author: Margaret Frith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448437651
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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.
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
Author: Margaret Frith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448437651
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448437651
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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.
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.
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, Chemist
Author: Byron Michael Vanderbilt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor
Author: Margaret Davidson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613366908
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Delves into the life of the inventor Edison, recounting the joys, tragedies, and successes of his life, and explains the scientific principles behind his revolutionary work
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613366908
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Delves into the life of the inventor Edison, recounting the joys, tragedies, and successes of his life, and explains the scientific principles behind his revolutionary work
Thomas Alva Edison
Author: Mervyn D. Kaufman
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A biography of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A biography of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.
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.
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.
A Streak of Luck
Author: Robert E. Conot
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553131413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553131413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description