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.

Author: Margaret Frith, Who Hq
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 12/29/2005
Series: Who Was?
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.66h x 6.64w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780448437651

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104041 / Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?