Who was Thomas Alva Edison?
- ISBN-10
- 0448437651
- ISBN-13
- 9780448437651
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Workshop
- Authors
- Who HQ, Margaret Frith
Description
A biography of the influential inventor who changed the way people live with his invention of the incandescent light bulb.
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