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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

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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... More
Book Information
PublisherDemco Media
BindingTurtleback (8 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages106
ISBN-100606346341
ISBN-13978-0606346344
Publication Date12/29/2005
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About Margaret Frith (Author) : Margaret Frith is a published author and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Margaret Frith include Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? (Who Was...? (Sagebrush)), Who Was Thomas Al... more
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