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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
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.
Early Childhood
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!
About the Book
Here’s an accessible, appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.
