The sub-title for this book is "How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives". The author does a really good job of showing things we use today and connecting things Thomas Edison did to help bring that tool or item to fruition. Lots of interesting facts and great illustrations. This would be a good book to have during our Hearing and Sound unit as there are many things like the phonograph and the telephone.
It mentions how Thomas Edison changed our quality of life.
Originally read August 2012
Read again December 2019
Goodreads says:
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common?
All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.
Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America’s most important inventors.
It mentions how Thomas Edison changed our quality of life.
Originally read August 2012
Read again December 2019
Goodreads says:
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common?
All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.
Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America’s most important inventors.
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