Books like Thomas Edison by Caryn Jenner

Thomas J. Fleming’s biography brings to life Benjamin Franklin, the founding father who combined genius as an author, newspaper publisher, inventor, and statesman to shape America’s independence.

Through relentless tinkering, by trial and error, the story goes, Thomas Alva Edison perseveres - and changes the world. Working against the common perception of Edison as a symbol of a mythic American past where persistence and individuality yielded hard-earned success, Israel demonstrates how Edison's remarkable career was actually very much a product of the inventor's fast-changing era. Informed by more than five million pages of archival documents, Paul Israel's ambitious life of Edison brightens the unexamined corners of a singularly influential and triumphant career in science. Edison is the only biography to cover the whole of Edison's career in invention, including his early, foundational work in telegraphy. The portrait of Thomas Alva Edison that emerges from this peerless biography is of a man of genius and astounding foresight.

A biography of the inventor who created the lightbulb, phonograph, and motion-picture machine.

Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.

A juvenile biography that follows the friendship and collaboration between Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, showing how Edison's mentorship sparked Ford’s innovation, culminating in the affordable Model T.