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Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison

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Print Biography

  • Edison: A Life of Invention
    Paul Israel · New York; Chichester: Wiley, 1998 · ISBN: 0471529427
  • Thomas Alva Edison: The Man Who Illuminated the World: A Pictorial Biography
    Lawrence A. Frost · Mattituck, NY: Amereon, 1996 · ISBN: 0848817184
  • Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
    Mark Essig · New York: Walker & Company, 2003 · ISBN: 0802714064
  • The Edison Motion Picture Myth
    Gordon Hendricks · Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961
  • Edison
    Matthew Josephson · New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959

Film Biography

  • Young Tom Edison (1940)
  • Edison, the Man (1940)
  • Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897)
  • A Day with Thomas A. Edison (1922)
  • The Current War (2017)

Portrayal

  • Young Einstein (1988)
  • Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
  • The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne: "Let There Be Light" Episode #1.9 (2000)
  • Gifts of Greatness (1985)
  • Voyagers!: "The Trial of Phineas Bogg" Episode #1.13 (1983)

Article

  • 7 Dimanche (BE)
      "Ces mères qui ont forgé le destin de leur enfant"
      May 14, 2006 · Iss. 035, pg. 14
  • Reader's Digest (US)
      "Personal Glimpses"
      September 1987 · pg. 173 · by: James D Newton
  • Moving Picture World (GB)
      "Thos. Edison Lauds Movietone Pictures"
      December 24, 1927 · pg. 12
  • New York Sun (US)
      "EDISON SEES SELF IN TALKING MOVIE Hears Own Voice Also Over the Kenographone."
      November 26, 1927 · Vol. 95, Iss. 73, pg. 8 · by: uncredited
  • Moving Picture World (US)
      "Industry Pays Tribute to Edison, Always Serve the Public, He Urges"
      March 1, 1924 · pg. 27, ill

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