num_pages: 192
description: A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.
language: English
title: Thomas A. Edison, young inventor
titlecomplete: Thomas A. Edison, young inventor (Childhood of famous Americans)
characters: Thomas Edison
genres: Historical, Biography, Juvenile, Science, Nonfiction, Literature, American History, Childrens, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 318
series: Childhood of Famous Americans
publisher: Bobbs-Merrill