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The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

by Margaret Cousins · 1965

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Young readers will be enthralled by the amazing story of inventor Thomas

Edison, a genius who forever changed life in the 20th century—and beyond. By

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the end of his career, Edison had invented the light bulb, motion pictures, and

the phonograph and made improvements in almost every other means of

communication in use today.

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childrens
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short · 185 pages

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