Thomas Edison: Inventing the Modern World (The True Story of

Thomas Edison: Inventing the Modern World (The True Story of Thomas Edison) (Historical Biographies of Famous People)
Thomas Edisonâ€™s inventions shape every day of a modern man or womanâ€™s life. If today youâ€™ve listened to recorded music, watched a television show or movie, plugged something into an electric socket, had an X-ray, turned on your car, spoke on the telephone, or flicked on an electric light, you have Edison to thank for his pioneering work in these fields, and many more.

Yet Edison is all too often remembered in popular culture only as villain for his feuds with other inventors, most notably the mad genius Nikola Tesla. In this thrilling, compact biography, Alexander Kennedy sorts fact from fiction in the life of the most prolific inventor in human history. We follow Edison, the ultimate self-made man, from his origins as a Michigan telegraph boy to the pinnacle of success as an industrial titan. Along the way, Kennedy carefully explains each of Edisonâ€™s key breakthroughs as well as the blots on his record, such as his anti-Semitism and his unhappy family life. The portrait that emerges is a man who is neither hero nor villain, sometimes a saint and sometimes a sinnerâ€”but always a genius...

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

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- Explanations of Edisonâ€™s most important breakthroughs, written in accessible laymanâ€™s language.
- The founding of Menlo Park, one of the worldâ€™s greatest laboratories.
- The true story of Edisonâ€™s rivalry with Tesla.
- Edisonâ€™s pioneering role in discovering the health effects of tobacco.
- The surprising history of the electric chair and the electrocution of Topsy the elephant.
- Edisonâ€™s friendship with Henry Fordâ€”and the trouble it led him into.
- Edisonâ€™s role in World War I.
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Country USA
Author Alexander Kennedy
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 100
PublicationDate 2016-02-25
ReleaseDate 2016-02-25

Country	USA
Author	Alexander Kennedy
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	100
PublicationDate	2016-02-25
ReleaseDate	2016-02-25

Thomas Edison: Inventing the Modern World (The True Story of Thomas Edison) (Historical Biographies of Famous People)

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