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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison Poems - Poems about Thomas Edison
tribute to Thomas Edison
Edison most of us think electric light bulb it took him 10, 000 recorded tries that is 9, 999 failures but he did it. Edison did you know he also invented the motion picture camera? in 1892? he had such an amazing mind I have no idea how many failures he had before he got it right. He was a persistent genius. Edison ...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
thomas edison,
history,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Sherriff - Thomas Edison - 'Fraud'
Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer Work by Robert Sherriff is protected by the Australian Federal Government Copyright Act 1968. Thomas Edison - 'Fraud': The True Legacy of Thomas Edison Innovator or Appropriator? When we think of the incandescent light bulb, Thomas Edison's name inevitably comes to mind....
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Robert Sherriff
Categories:
thomas edison,
light,
Form:
Bio
Thomas Edison
Tom sat there eating the last of his bread, wondering if the next day he'd get fed, felt like a dumb cluck, down on his luck, till a light went off the top of his head. 11-19-16...
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Cheryl Hoffman
Categories:
thomas edison,
history, humor, science,
Form:
Limerick
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison diverged a lesson It was awesomely bright called incandescent light...
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Jessica Thompson
Categories:
thomas edison,
growth, inspiration,
Form:
Clerihew
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison Drank milk instead of medicine. He died of diabetes - Should have had his milk with Wheaties!...
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
thomas edison,
people,
Form:
Clerihew
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison couldn't sell the idea of selling electricity to business or residence in any major state or city. The biggest fear for seven years that was often being disputed was that if one were to turn a light on, they could get electrocuted....
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Billy Thekidster
Categories:
thomas edison,
Form:
Rhyme