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One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit uplowerManhattan with incandescent light and changed the way peopleliveever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousandsofEdison’s inventions, which include the phonograph andthekinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As aboy,observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fedaplaymate a mixture of worms and water to see if she couldfly!Here’s an accessible, appealing biography with 100black-and-whiteillustrations. |
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