¿Quién fue Thomas Alva Edison?

Authors: Frith, Margaret
Genres: History, Biography
Topics: Technology, Inventions
Lexile: 780,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JNF007020, JNF007090, JNF061010
ISBN: 9781101567067, Related ISBNs: 044845856X, 1101567066, 9780448458564, 9781101567067
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 112,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison's inventions, illuminated in John O'Brien's wonderful black-and-white illustrations.
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