Thomas Alva Edison
Subtitle: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: March 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780766144248
Subjects: Biography: general; Inventions & inventors; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Scientists - Inventors; Edison, Thomas A; Scientists - General
First sentence: IT was a cold day in February, 1847, and the little town of Milan, Ohio, was noisy with the rumble of farm wagons carrying wheat to the canal for shipment to Lake Erie; the wharf was crowded with farmers, shippers, laborers, and idlers, all gathered together to assist or retard the weighing and loading of the grain; everywhere appeared bustle and movement save, perhaps, in the Edison homestead, where the advent of a new life was awaited.