Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · December 29, 2005
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- Who it’s for
- A life of inventions, electric light, and childhood curiosity, told on a human scale.
- Themes
- Invention and technology, Scientific curiosity, Impact of innovation
- Genres
- Science & Tech Biographies for Kids, Inventions, Electricity & Electronics
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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!
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Here’s an accessible, appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Bright Ideas, Human Scale
A life of inventions, electric light, and childhood curiosity, told on a human scale.
Come here for
- A child-friendly path into inventions and electricity
- The curious, startling side of a famous inventor
Expect
- An accessible biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations
- Edison’s inventions alongside his early curiosity
Where it sits
| Science & Tech Biographies for Kids | 91% |
|---|---|
| Inventions | 49% |
| Electricity & Electronics | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Kids Biographies
- Science & Tech Biographies for Kids
- Inventions
- Authors
- Margaret Frith
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- December 29, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Invention and technology · Scientific curiosity · Impact of innovation
- Reading lane
- Kids Biographies