Thomas Edison: The Wizard of the Night
A novel from the series "Novels from the Lives of Scientists"
Edison's life as you have never read it: a true story told scene by scene.
What you'll learn
- Follow Edison's life from childhood to his last days as one connected story
- Understand how he made the light bulb and the talking machine through everyday examples
- See how thousands of failed experiments become the road to one that works
- Learn how he kept going after leaving school, losing much of his hearing and seeing his laboratory burn
- Meet the men who worked with him in his laboratory and those who lived in his time, such as Tesla and Ford
- Tell what really happened from what the author imagined in every chapter
About this book
A night in October 1879, in a wooden laboratory at Menlo Park. A thin cotton thread glows inside a glass bulb, and the men around it do not sleep. They are waiting on one question: will it still be glowing in the morning?
This is a novel, not a biography. It starts with a boy who left school after 3 months and was taught at home by his mother, follows him selling newspapers on the train at the age of 12, then as a telegraph operator moving from city to city, and then as the man who lit the streets of New York. The events, dates and names are real, and the story is told in scenes and dialogue as if you were watching it.
The science is explained with pictures from daily life: a cotton thread, a strip of bamboo from a hand fan, a machine that plays your voice back. No equations and no difficult terms. A final section tells you clearly what is real and what is imagined in every chapter.
The book is written in Arabic.
Who this book is for
- Young readers aged 13 to 18
- Lovers of novels and life stories
- Parents looking for useful reading for their children
- Teachers
- Anyone who loves science but not equations
Why read this book
- 14 chapters in 240 pages
- Real events, dates and names
- Simple, gripping Arabic
- A line drawing at the start of every chapter
