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New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: who invented the light...
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Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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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, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! Here’s...
4) Edison
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Language
English
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of one of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn't focus at school and caused trouble around the house. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. When he was only...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
From his humble boyhood as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains, reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, and dreaming of new inventions, Thomas Edison went on to create the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Angie and friends as they learn and explore a variety of science topics from a shark's sense of smell to plants and pollinator's roles to radioactive decay to DNA and more.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows Edison from his time in school to his career as a full-time inventor, while it focusing on his groundbreaking creation of the lightbulb.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 205 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. Edison: the invention of the movies is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Access is provided to Deerfield Public Library cardholders through Gale eResources. Click the link to access full-text information about this topic from the news, magazines, academic journals, primary sources and trustworthy websites. May also include videos, images and audio.
16) Tesla
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
17) Tesla
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English
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Ethan Hawke stars as iconic inventor Nikola Tesla, fighting an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition. Increasingly displeased by the greed of fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), Tesla forges his own path toward creating the innovative alternate-current motor. In this biopic, director Michael Almereyda weaves together a portrait of a rebel ahead of his time through all his controversies, legal battles,...
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), color map; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time to hit the road! After years of inventing things that other people needed, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford realize there is somthing they need-- a vacation! So, the famous inventors pack up Ford's Model T and invite their good friends Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs to come along. "The Four Vagabonds" take to America's back roads to enjy the country's natural wonders, fireside chats, frolicking fun-- and even a few new inventions. What...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 206 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. Edison: the invention of the movies is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts.
20) The current war
Publisher
101 Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
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