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Blurb: “Like many people who change the world, Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was not expected to do much with his life. The last of seven children, he was a frail, distractible child with bad hearing whose father thought he might be dim-witted. However, the endlessly curious Edison was a habitual inventor and voracious reader from an early age. A driven entrepreneur, at twelve he was already hawking newspapers and candy. His knack for business and keen scientific mind combined with a burning ambition to make Edison the most important inventor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Writer David J. Kent (Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity) tells how the inventor:
- Fought with other great inventors, like Tesla and Westinghouse
- Lit the world's darkness with the incandescent lightbulb
- Used the cruel power of electricity on an elephant named Topsy
- Founded both the first modern tech company and movie studio
- Was awarded over 1,000 patents in the United States alone
" Created everything from a voting machine to the phonograph
Vividly written and packed with colorful and rare illustrations, Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World is the fascinating story of how a self-taught boy from Ohio who loved to invent new gadgets ended up changing the world.”