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Thomas A.Edison: How Electricity Was Harnessed for Domestic Use by One of the Great Inventors of All Time (Scientists Who Have Changed the World)
Thomas AEdison How Electricity Was Harnessed for Domestic Use by One of the Great Inventors of All Time - Scientists Who Have Changed the World Author:Anna Sproule "Thomas Edison" is one of the titles in the biography series, "Scientists Who Have Changed the World". This series is aimed at young people between the ages of 11 and 14 and is designed to encourage and create in children a greater awareness and understanding of science and its methods. "Thomas Edison" is a lively and concise narrative about the... more » work and the life of one of the world's greatest inventors. It was Edison that gave us the technological beginnings of the modern world; with the electric light bulb, the first sound-recording machine - which was to lead to the gramophone - and advancing the telephone, first invented by Alexander Bell, making it into a communication system that would span the world. This book shows the important influence Edison has made on the world we know - his scientific inventions were to bring the world out of the Steam Age and into the 20th century.« less