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English
Description
In this historical thriller about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America, a young lawyer fresh out of Columbia Law School takes a case that seems impossible to win. His client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over who invented the light bulb.
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Focuses on ten crucial days in the life of Thomas Edison and highlights his ideas and inventions. Although a child of the 19th century, his interests and inventions parallel some of the most popular technologies of the Internet age.
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Publisher
Zonderkidz
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography of one of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. Those early years of encouragement and loving guidance formed the man who would apply those valuable lessons as well as his rich imagination to inventing the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A riveting chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among three great titans of the Gilded Age--inventor Thomas Alva Edison; eccentric genius Nikola Tesla; and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder--to bring electricity to the world.
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