Who was Thomas Alva Edison?
Brand: Penguin
Format: Paperback
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“Messy experiments at home look tame beside young Tom, who fed worms to a friend in the hope she’d fly. The same boy grew up to light homes around the world.”
Fishing line, spiderwebs, human hair: he tried them all for his lightbulb.
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? is an illustrated biography of the inventor whose electric lightbulb changed the way people live.
As a curious boy, Tom fed a friend worms, hoping she would take off like a bird. He left school young and had trouble hearing for the rest of his life, but never stopped experimenting. The book follows him from his first business to his laboratory.
What they'll discover
- How his universal stock printer sent the changing value of gold to Wall Street businesses.
- Why finding out what did not work mattered as much as finding what did.
- The organ in his laboratory, played with two fingers, perhaps to help him think.
By Margaret Frith · Illustrated by John O'Brien · Who Was? series · English
Quick answers
What is a filament? The thin thread inside a lightbulb that glows. Tom's team tested everything from bamboo to fishing line to find the right one.
Is it only about the lightbulb? No. It also covers the phonograph and the kinetoscope, one of the first machines for watching moving pictures.
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