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.
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 Shipyards
- 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 at School
- 92-101 The Basement Laboratory
- 102-114 Tom Tries an Experiment
- 115-124 Tom's First Telegraph
- 125-133 A Job on a 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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