"Follows the stories of Dr. William Gilbert, Stephen Gray, and Benjamin Franklin as they explore the force now called electricity"--
Now, who actually discovered it cannot be identified easily as it came with a series of experiments and thoughts connected to another. Read all about it in this wonderful book for fifth graders.
We Need Electricity For Almost Everything We Do. The Easy-To-Read Text, Great Graphic- Art And Vivid Photographs Will Help You Understand How Electricity Is Produced.
In this science invention book, readers will see how Thomas Edison and engineering pioneers figured out how to harness the power of electricity and put it to use for just about everything in modern life.
Many people know that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity through lightning, but he was also a great inventor and helped write the Declaration of Independence!
In 1752, the sky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, darkened.
In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of ...
In Edison & the Electric Chair Mark Essig delivers a provocative new examination of Edison - the man and the inventor. He also explores America's fascination with technology and violent death.
Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America's love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced ...
We need electricity for almost everything we do.
This book comprehensively covers the invention of electricity, from the cultures that tried to harness the power of lightning over centuries to Benjamin Franklin's tests with a kite and a key, the industrialization of the lightbulb by ...