Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

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son yet no one book can tell all there is to know about him He left crates of notebooks filled with ideas and reflections as well as thousands of labora tory records Hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories were written about him while he was alive So many records exist that his papers have still not been completely studied by historians This book will describe what Thomas Edison's life was like some of his inventions and a few of his setbacks and successes The activities will give you an idea of the scientific concepts Edison was explor ing as he pushed his experiments on to success Edi son's success clearly began in his childhood Many of Edison's inventions are rooted in the lessons from his schoolbooks and from experiments he did in his boyhood lab in the basement of the family home His life was his work and it began while he was young studying what he saw around him and applying knowledge and effort to create things nobody had created