Author(s): Sterling North
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 168
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2009-03-19
Dimensions: 127 x 193 x 15mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: Reissue
Illustrations: Illustrations, black and white

Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America's greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn't about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named ?the greatest living American.? Follow Thomas Edison's life from losing his sense of hearing to losing his hard-earned fortune, in this intriguing biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.