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Language
English
Description
New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light...
6) Edison
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius patented 1,093 inventions, not including those he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.Morris portrays the unknown...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe during his life. His revolutionary electrical grid ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone.
Author
Series
Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning illustrator Torben Kuhlmann's stunning new book transports readers to new depths where imagination lights the way! A long time ago, one mouse learned to fly, another landed on the moon...what will happen in the next Mouse adventure?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a bitter, self-loathing sixteen-year-old girl with a deformed hand and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful secret threatens everything.
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 2
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankroll quickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggest reward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison).
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 1
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In a steampunk-style alternate-history fantasy tale, America's only hope for expansion past the Mississippi River in 1881 is a mission to Tombstone, Arizona, headed by Thomas Edison, whose protectors include Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the zombie Bat Masterson.
17) The current war
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
18) Tesla
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to hit the road! After years of inventing things that other people needed, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford realize there is somthing they need-- a vacation! So, the famous inventors pack up Ford's Model T and invite their good friends Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs to come along. "The Four Vagabonds" take to America's back roads to enjy the country's natural wonders, fireside chats, frolicking fun-- and even a few new inventions. What...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American...
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