Books like The Story of Thomas A. Edison by Frances M. Perry

A young orphan girl from Canada makes her way to a Prince Edward Island farm and becomes a cherished member of a family there, all while proving she has a talent for making friends and learning languages.

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.

Nick discovers Tesla’s mysterious attic items are parts of a Far‑Range Energy Emitter that can transmit free energy worldwide, and must track down missing components to prevent a powerful, global device in the hands of those who need it most.

A short biography of an ingenious American inventor whose creativity brought us the ticker-tape, electric light, record players, and movies.