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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? Paperback - 2005

by Margaret Frith; Who Hq; John O'Brien (Illustrator)

This accessible, appealing biography shines the light on Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb, along with the phonograph and a precursor to the movie camera called a kinetoscope. Illustrations.

Summary

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.

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  • Title Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
  • Author Margaret Frith; Who Hq; John O'Brien (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Workshop, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-12-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780448437651 / 0448437651
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.66 x 6.64 x 0.28 in (19.46 x 16.87 x 0.71 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 790
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects Inventors, Inventors - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005003386
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Margaret Frith is the author of numerous children's books, including several titles in the Who Was? series, such as Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Who Was Louis Braille?, Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? and Who Was Woodrow Wilson? She lives in New York City.

John O'Brien has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa and Stanford University, and he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His work has appeared in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, Country Journal, Harrowsmith, and Gray's Sporting Journal. He lives with his wife, Becky, in Franklin, West Virginia.

Nancy Harrison is an illustrator known for the Who Is... series and for graphic illustrations for Fortune 500 Companies. Nancy received her master's degree from Syracuse University.

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