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Informationen zum Autor Margaret Cousins was an editor and author of short stories and novels for children. In her career, she worked at Good Housekeeping and McCall’s . She was also senior editor at Doubleday and was fiction and book editor at The Ladies’ Home Journal. Cousins is the author of the Landmark Books Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia and The Story of Thomas Alva Edison . She died in 1996. Klappentext Beginning with Thomas Edison's childhood! when he set up his first laboratory in his basement as a 10-year-old! and following through his many jobs before he was able to support himself as an inventor! this is the true story of the man who brought the world the phonograph! motion pictures! and even the electric light bulb—revolutionary inventions that forever changed the way people live. "One of the most critically acclaimed! best-selling children's book series ever published.”—The New York Times Margaret Cousins is also the author of the Landmark Book Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia. Zusammenfassung Beginning with Thomas Edison’s childhood! when he set up his first laboratory in his basement as a 10-year-old! and following through his many jobs before he was able to support himself as an inventor! this is the true story of the man who brought the world the phonograph! motion pictures! and even the electric light bulb—revolutionary inventions that forever changed the way people live. “One of the most critically acclaimed! best-selling children’s book series ever published.”— The New York Times Margaret Cousins is also the author of the Landmark Book Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia .
