Description: As a young boy, Thomas Alva Edison always wanted to know the answer to the question "Why?" At the age of ten, he set up his first scientific laboratory in the basement of his home. Soon after, he sold candy on a train so he could buy chemicals for another laboratory he'd set up in the baggage car. He was always wondering and experimenting. Thomas Edison grew up to become a brilliant inventor. He began his amazing career improving the telegraph, and went on to invent the light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph. He installed New York City's first electrical system, and he made improvements in almost every means of communication in use today. Here is the lively story of the genius who forever changed life in the twentieth century - and beyond. Landmark Books: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison As a young boy, Thomas Alva Edison always wanted to know the answer to the question "Why?" At the age of ten, he set up his first scientific laboratory in the basement of his home. Soon after, he sold candy on a train so he could buy chemicals for another laboratory he'd set up in the baggage car. He was always wondering and experimenting. Thomas Edison grew up to become a brilliant inventor. He began his amazing career improving the telegraph, and went on to invent the light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph. He installed New York City's first electrical system, and he made improvements in almost every means of communication in use today. Here is the lively story of the genius who forever changed life in the twentieth century - and beyond.
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Book Title: Story of Thomas Alva Edison
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication Year: 1981
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology, Technology / Inventions, History / United States / 19th Century
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: Margaret Cousins
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Landmark Bks.
Format: Digest Paperback
