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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...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shares a portrait of the inventor famed for such innovations as the incandescent lightbulb, batteries and movie cameras, exploring his life-changing achievements and perseverance in the face of numerous failures.
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
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
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
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.
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
18) Edison
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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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...
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