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42) Thomas Edison
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the inventor of the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and many other devices.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the animals on his family's farm in Serbia. An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless communications. But his greatest invention was the AC induction...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has...
53) Thomas Edison
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the life and achievements of the inventor whose inventions include the electric light bulb, the phonograph, mimeograph machine, and the ticker tape machine.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren't as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis...
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