Newspaper Connection for Students:

Using at least a full page in your notebook or scrapbook, answer these questions:

1. Do you think Thomas Edison is the greatest inventor of all time? If not, then who was?

2. Why was Thomas Edison so successful? What were his three most important inventions?

3. In your opinion, who were the three greatest inventors in American history?

Edison, His Life and Inventions
Viewed from the standpoint of inventive progress, the first half of the nineteenth century had passed very profitably when Edison appeared--every year marked by some notable achievement in the arts and sciences, with promise of its early and abundant fruition in commerce and industry.
· Edison National Historic Site
· Edison´s Miracle of Light
· Mr. Edison´s Phonograph
· Lighting A Revolution: Joseph W. Swan

The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison´s Laboratories
This lesson plan is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, Edison National Historic Site, the archives maintained at the site, and other materials about Thomas Edison and the West Orange laboratory.