书名：Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? 谁是爱迪生？

作者：Margaret Frith

出版社名称：Penguin Workshop

出版时间：2005

语种：英语

ISBN：9780448437651

商品尺寸：13.6 x 0.6 x 19.3 cm

包装：平装

1882年的一天，托马斯·爱迪生(Thomas Edison)扳动了一个开关，用白炽灯照亮了曼哈顿下城，从此改变了人们的生活方式。电灯泡只是爱迪生数千项发明中的一项，这些发明还包括留声机和电影放映机(电影摄影机的早期前身)。当他还是个小男孩的时候，他观察到一只知更鸟抓了一条虫子，然后飞走了。他给一个玩伴喂了一些虫子和水，看她是否会飞!

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! 

约翰·奥布莱恩(John O'Brien)曾在爱荷华大学(University of Iowa)和斯坦福大学(Stanford University)举办过写作奖学金，他还获得过国家艺术奖学金(National Endowment for the Arts fellowship)。他的研究发表在《哈德逊评论》、《马萨诸塞州评论》、《三季刊》、《乡村杂志》、《哈罗史密斯》和《格雷体育杂志》上。他和妻子贝基住在西弗吉尼亚州富兰克林市。

John O'Brien has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa and Stanford University, and he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His work has appeared in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, Country Journal, Harrowsmith, and Gray's Sporting Journal. He lives with his wife, Becky, in Franklin, West Virginia.