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Edison after 40

http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/index.htm

Provider: National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution


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Based on an exhibit created by the Smithsonian Institution, this website provides text and original photographs to document a timeline of the life of Thomas Alva Edison featuring the following aspects:

  • The Challenge of Success
  • Changes At Forty
  • Home Life
  • The New Technical World
  • Fame And Its Distractions
  • Edison In His Eighties

Students and teachers will learn about and see photos of Edison’s inventions, laboratories, homes, family members, colleagues and achievements.