Who was thomas alva edison? [electronic resource]. Margaret Frith.
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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- ISBN: 9780525629528
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2019.
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- Unabridged.
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- Narrator: Kevin Pariseau.
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- Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4790 Lexile.
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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.
