Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
Edison, Thomas Alva, Frith, Margaret, Harrison, Nancy, O'Brien, John
Always curious -- Young inventor -- Tom and his "boys" -- His invention factory -- Turning on the light -- Making moving pictures -- Always inventing;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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Год:
2005
Издательство:
Penguin Group US;Penguin Young Readers Group
Язык:
english
ISBN 10:
110163992X
ISBN 13:
9781101639924
Файл:
EPUB, 4.60 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2005