Profiles a man whose childhood interest in experimentation led him to create more than one thousand inventions, including the phonograph, moving pictures, and a storage battery.
A short biography of an inquisitive boy, telling the innumerable questions, escapades, and experiments that led him to trouble as a youngster, but to great inventions as a young man.
the man who illuminated the world : a pictorial biography
Frost, Lawrence A
1996
Chronicles the life of Thomas Edison from his Ohio childhood to his success and fame as an inventor, and features over three hundred photos and illustrations.