Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

One day in 1882,Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of EdisonΓÇÖs inventionswhich include the phonograph and the kinetoscopean early precursor to the movie camera. As a boyobserving a robin catch a worm and then take flighthe fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! HereΓÇÖs an accessibleappealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.