# Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

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- Book: [Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-frith/who-was-thomas-alva-edison) ([Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-frith/who-was-thomas-alva-edison.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Frith](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-frith), [Who HQ](https://www.bookquiver.com/who-hq), [John O'Brien](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-obrien)
- Publisher: Penguin Workshop
- ISBN: 978-04-4843-765-1
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2005-12-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...