00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Frith, Margareth aut Verfasser/-in Edison Thomas Alva Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? Frith, Margareth New York Penguin Random House US 2005 Who Was 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 Edison's inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! Here's an accessible, appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations. 9780448437651 9780448437651 eng Band 105 S.