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Frith, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISON

Hager, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAG

Moore, Graham

1 hold on 3 copies

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 MOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016

Davis, Wes

1 hold on 1 copy

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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAV

Summary: 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 CUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Cu

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CUR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CUR

Kuhlmann, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North South Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUH

Summary: 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 TES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Te

Houran, 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.

Format: text

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 HOU

Summary: A look at the life of the amazing inventor and scientist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB EDISON DEM

Delano, 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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Goldsmith, 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE Gol

DeGraaf, 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 DEG

Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The John C. Winston Company 1931

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MIL

Morris, 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 MOR

Summary: 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 MEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Me

Slade, Suzanne

Summary: Describes the friendship between the two inventors and how Thomas Edison's advice to the young Henry Ford inspired Ford to work on his automobiles until he came up with an inexpensive, reliable version which became the Model T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2015

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Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDI

Baldwin, Neil

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS BAL

McPherson, 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 MCP

Summary: This animated bird's eye view of Edison's legendary career takes you behind the scenes to reveal the hard work and sheer excitement of daily discoveries with "The Wizard of Menlo Park."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Nest Family Entertainment 2005

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Cawthorne, Nigel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng Cawthorne

McCormick, Blaine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 MCC

Summary: "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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDI

Alvarado, Rudolph.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 ALV

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