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Thomas Edison: Young Inventor (Childhood of Famous Americans)

by Sue Guthridge Author

(From Amazon): A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
978-0-02-041850
Print Status
In Print
Pages
192
Publisher
Aladdin
Copyright
1986

Pages

  • 11-19 An Idea that Didn't Work
  • 20 -30 Tom Visits the Shipyard
  • 31-46 A Birthday to Remember
  • 47-54 Off for a New Home
  • 55-66 Tom's First Train Ride
  • 67-79 The House in the Grove
  • 80-91 First Day of School
  • 92-101 The Basement Laboratory
  • 102-114 Tom Tries an Experiment
  • 115-124 Tom's First Telegraph
  • 125-133 A Job on the Train
  • 134-141 The Underground Railway
  • 142-148 The Laboratory on Wheels
  • 149-159 Tom's Own Newspaper
  • 160-171 An Explosion
  • 172-181 "Moving" Pictures
  • 182-192 Light's Golden Jubilee

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