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Writing Write an acrostic poem about Thomas Edison and his inventions.Use the name Edison for the acrostic.Each letter in his name begins a line of your poem.Science What would you invent?Make a poster showing your invention and how it works. Share your poster with your class.
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Edison’s InventionsA Reading A–Z Level J Leveled Book
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Edison’s Inventions
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What are Thomas Edison’s inventions, and why are they important?
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Written by Rus Buyok
Edison’s Inventions
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Table of Contents
Who Was Thomas Edison? . . . . . . 4
Early Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Phonograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Electric Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Other Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Amazing Edison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Who Was Thomas Edison?
Thomas Edison was an inventor.
He lived from 1847 to 1931.
He invented many things.
We stil l use some things
he invented today.
Thomas Edison was nicknamed the “Wizard of Menlo Park.” Menlo Park, New Jersey, was the town where he worked.
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Early Life
Thomas did not go to school much,
but he loved to read.
He quit school when he was twelve.
He went to work on trains.
Thomas did not do well in public school, so his mother taught him at home.
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There he learned to use
the telegraph .
The telegraph was a machine
that sent a message.
The message came in long
and short beeps.
A telegraph worker sends a message from the top of a building.
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Thomas did not hear well.
He could not always hear
the beeps.
He invented a machine that
changed the beeps to letters.
Thomas was an inventor!
Edison’s telegraph made it easy to send and read messages. It also worked in bad weather when others wouldn’t.
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The Phonograph
Thomas invented many things.
He invented the phonograph .
People could record and play back
sound with this machine.
They did not think it was real!
They thought another person
was talking.
Edison listens to his phonograph.
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The Electric Light
Thomas invented many things.
He invented an electric light.
At that time, electric lights cost
a lot and were not safe.
Other people had tried to make
a safe light that many people
could buy.
Early electric lights, such as these, burned out quickly and used a lot of energy.
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Thomas tried
many times, too.
He did not quit.
He made a safe
electric light.
His light did not
cost much
to make.
Edison celebrates fifty years of the light bulb in 1929.
Edison’s electric light was first used in 1879.
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Thomas then worked to bring
electricity to people.
His lights would later be used
around the world.
Edison’s ElectricityMost people today do not use the kind of electricity
Edison invented. It costs too much and can be dangerous. Today we use electricity in a way created by another inventor, Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla invented radio and the first remote control boat.
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The Movies
Thomas invented many things.
He invented a machine that took
pictures quickly.
He also invented a machine that
showed the pictures on a screen.
A man looks through one of Edison’s early film cameras in 1912.
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The machine quickly showed
the pictures one after the other.
The things in the pictures looked
as if they were moving.
Thomas had invented movies!
Edison invented the first machine for playing movies. Sound came through tubes placed in the viewer’s ears.
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Other Inventions
Thomas invented many more things.
He invented batteries that ran cars
and other machines.
He invented phone parts that are
stil l used today.
Edison’s Big Inventions
1869 Printing telegraph
1877 Phonograph
1879 Electric light
1894 Movies
1909 Battery
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Amazing Edison
Thomas invented
over one thousand things!
People stil l talk about him
and the things he invented.
Edison helped invent a machine that took pictures of small things very close up.
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Glossarybatteries (n.) objects that give power
to things (p. 14)
electric charged with, (adj.) powered by, or
creating electricity
(p. 9)
inventor (n.) a person who creates
or builds something
for the first time (p. 4)
machine (n.) any device that uses
energy to help a
person do work (p. 6)
phonograph a record player (n.) (p. 8)
telegraph a system that delivers
(n.) messages using simple
electrical signals sent
over wires (p. 6)