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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Juvenile literature Electric industries United States History Electrical engineers United States Biography General Electric Company. Inventors Inventors United States Biography Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature United States Westinghouse, George 1846-1914Summary: 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 EDISummary: 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
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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
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISONMoore, 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.
Format: text
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 2016Blunt, Katherine
Summary: "A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas & Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.7923 BLUGoldsmith, Howard.
Summary: Young Thomas Edison saves a child from being hit by a train and, as his reward, asks for training as a telegraph operator because that will help him prepare to become an inventor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GolFelix, Rebecca
Summary: With this title, young makers will learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and collaborate with others as they take on four electrical engineering challenges, including building a robot that moves and creating a light that looks like the night sky. Like a real electrical engineer, they ll have to meet demands while staying within limits. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 FELDelano, Marfe Ferguson.
Summary: Presents a biography of the tireless Thomas Edison, illustrated with many photos of his life and inventions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glen Arbor Arts Center 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL MANGraham-White, Sean
Summary: A new generation of locomotives for a changing world: greener, cleaner, and just as powerful. This book introduces readers to General Electric's Evolution Series, the company’s latest achievement in a long and distinguished history of locomotive design. At the heart of the Evolution's success is the GEVO 12-cylinder engine, which produces the same horsepower as the old 16-cylinder FDL while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MBI 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 GRAMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Relates the race to provide electricity to Americans with two different electric distribution systems, Thomas Edison's direct current and Nikola Tesla's alternating current.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.7932 MCPJonnes, 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.
Format: text
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 JonnesDeGraaf, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS DEGMorris, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORCawthorne, Nigel
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng CawthorneBaldwin, Neil
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS BALAlvarado, Rudolph.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EDISON MORGryta, Thomas
Summary: "How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic corporation-suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Since its founding in 1892, General Electric has been more than just a corporation: it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 GRYRodengen, Jeffrey L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Write Stuff Enterprises, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 359.93 RODWelch, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.38 WELLady Gaga
Contents: Marry The Night (4:24) -- Born This Way (4:20) -- Government Hooker (4:14) -- Judas (4:09) -- Americano (4:06) -- Hair (5:07) -- Scheie (3:45) -- Bloody Mary (4:04) -- Bad Kids (3:50) -- Highway Unicorn (Road To Love) (4:15) -- Heavy Metal Lover (4:12) -- Electric Chapel (4:13) -- You And I (5:07) -- The Edge Of Glory (5:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2011