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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Juvenile literature Electrical engineers United States Biography Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Inventors Inventors United States Biography Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Tesla, Nikola 1856-1943 United States Westinghouse, George 1846-1914Kuhlmann, Torben
Summary: When two unlikely friends build a vessel capable of taking them to the bottom of the ocean and find a missing treasure, the truth turns out to be far more amazing. A mixture of STEM and animal adventure recommended for kids fascinated by engineering or invention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUHFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who EdisonHager, Thomas
Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAGMoore, Graham
Summary: When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016Summary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CuCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURDavis, Wes
Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAVSummary: 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....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeHouran, Lori Haskins
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the famous inventor known for creating the movie camera and the battery for an electric car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOUDeGraaf, Leonard
Summary: Chronicles the life and work of the inventor through primary and previously unseen sources, including personal and business correspondence, photographs, drawings, advertising materials, and lab notebooks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS DEGMiller, Francis Trevelyan
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Publisher / Publication Date: The John C. Winston Company 1931
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MILMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORSummary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDICawthorne, Nigel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng CawthorneMcCormick, Blaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 MCCDaly, Michael
Summary: Describes how a circus elephant named Topsy was electrocuted in 1903 with 6,600 volts of alternating current as proof that it was much more dangerous than direct current in an ongoing dispute between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.32 DALJonnes, Jill
Summary: A chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among inventor Thomas Edison, eccentric genius Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder, to bring electricity to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 JONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng JonnesSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeBaldwin, Neil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS BALSummary: "A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Movies is a monumental collection of 140 archival motion pictures. From 19th century camera tests never intended for public screening to the last feature-length film released by the Thomas A. Edison Studios in 1918 (The Unbeliever), the collection is digitally mastered with musical scores,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDIAlvarado, Rudolph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 ALVMorris, Edmund
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019