Thomas Edison Young Inventor,9780020418504

Thomas Edison Young Inventor

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ISBN13: 9780020418504
ISBN10: 0020418507
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1986-10-31
Publisher(s): Aladdin
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Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

Author Biography

Sue Gutheridge is the author of Childhood of Famous Americans: Thomas Edison, an Aladdin book.

Table of Contents

An Idea That Didn't Work
11(9)
Tom Visits the Shipyards
20(11)
A Birthday to Remember
31(16)
Off for a New Home
47(8)
Tom's First Train Ride
55(12)
The House in the Grove
67(13)
First Day at School
80(12)
The Basement Laboratory
92(10)
Tom Tries an Experiment
102(13)
Tom's First Telegraph
115(10)
A Job on a Train
125(9)
The Underground Railway
134(8)
The Laboratory on Wheels
142(7)
Tom's Own Newspaper
149(11)
An Explosion
160(12)
``Moving'' Pictures
172(10)
Light's Golden Jubilee
182

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