Thomas Edison Young Inventor

For use in schools and libraries only. A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

Sue Gutheridge is the author of Childhood of Famous Americans: Thomas Edison, an Aladdin book.

An Idea That Didn't Work

11

(9)

Tom Visits the Shipyards

20

(11)

A Birthday to Remember

31

(16)

Off for a New Home

47

(8)

Tom's First Train Ride

55

(12)

The House in the Grove

67

(13)

First Day at School

80

(12)

The Basement Laboratory

92

(10)

Tom Tries an Experiment

102

(13)

Tom's First Telegraph

115

(10)

A Job on a Train

125

(9)

The Underground Railway

134

(8)

The Laboratory on Wheels

142

(7)

Tom's Own Newspaper

149

(11)

An Explosion

160

(12)

``Moving'' Pictures

172

(10)

Light's Golden Jubilee

182

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Thomas Edison Young Inventor

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