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Explore the creative side of learning with engaging Thomas Edison projects, including the Bottle Buddy project for kids!

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Over the last 13 years, students have awed the Edison nyhet Foundation with their creativity and hard work at the STEM-based Thomas Edison Pitch Contest. Each year, elementary, middle and high school students submit prototypes that they have designed to &#;make the world a brighter place.&#; From health to alternative energy to animal welfare to space exploration, it is amazing to see what young minds can come up with the right tools and outlet. Here are 6 examples of just that:

1)AVOLT, the &#;Mechanical Heart Valve”: This Lacey Township High School grupp created an electrically motorized valve replacement with an ultrasonic sensor to regulate the aortic valve’s leaflets to coincide with the blood flow of the systole and diastole phases. This invention is meant to significantly help a patient’s postoperative and cardiovascular health, along with the huvudartär, which is the most important artery in the heart.

2)The Buzz Gloves for Astronauts: The Hockaday School create

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Thomas Edison&#;s Inventive Life

Resources

Want to know more about Edison?

Check out these web sites!

Thomas A. Edison Papers

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

Look at these books!

Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention, Robert Friedel and Paul Israel ()

Edison: A Life of Invention, Paul Israel ()

Edison and the Business of Innovation, A.J. Millard ()

Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park ExperienceWilliam S. Pretzer, ed., ()

Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth, Wyn Wachhorst ()

Especially for younger readers

Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electric Age, Gene Adair ()

Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents, Theresa M. Collins and Lisa Gitelman ()

thomas edison bottle biography ideas students

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Thomas Edison for Kids

By Laurie Carlson

Chicago Review Press Incorporated

NOTE TO READERS,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
INTRODUCTION,
TIME LINE,
1 Off to a Quick Start,
2 Time to Get Moving,
3 Wandering and Working,
4 Getting Down to Business,
5 Lights On!,
6 A New Life,
7 Always Thinking,
8 Successes and Setbacks,
9 Plants, Friendship, and Rubber,
RESOURCES,
INDEX,

CHAPTER 1

Off to a Quick Start

"WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TODAY, MAY NOT BE TOMORROW." — THOMAS EDISON

Thomas Alva Edison's Boyhood

A terrific snowstorm blanketed the small village of Milan, Ohio, the night before Thomas Alva Edison was born. It was and the Edison home, like others, was heated with a coal- or wood-burning stove or fireplace. Candlelight or the flickering flame from lamps lighted the darkness. Lamps were simple — a piece of wick stuck in whale oil or vegetable oil.

Dr. Lehman Galpin lived down the street from the Edison family and arr