Young Thomas Edison (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sterling North
- First Published: 1958
- Time of Work: 1847–1931
- Setting: Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and New York
- Principal Characters: Thomas Alva Edison, Nancy Elliott Edison, Samuel Edison, Mary Stilwell Edison, Mina Miller Edison, Henry Ford, Francis Jehl, General Marshall Lefferts
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Education or educators, Marriage, Science or scientists, Patents, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Light, Machinery, Telegraphs, Telephones
- Locales: New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana
Form and Content
In Young Thomas Edison, Sterling North details the life of the great American scientist and inventor Thomas Alva Edison from Edison’s birth in Milan, Ohio, and boyhood in Port Huron, Michigan, to his early adult wanderings through the Mississippi River Valley and his later great achievements when his laboratories produced hundreds of practical inventions each year. North profiles the human side of Edison, ultimately presenting him as a great American and humanitarian. He also highlights Edison’s greatest discoveries. Photographs and informative...
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