One day in 1882 Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight he fed a playmate a mixture of worms and water to see if she could fly! Here’s an accessible appealing biography with 100 black-and-white illustrations.
