Edison Ohio Local History Alliance APRIL – JUNE 2010

APRIL – JUNE 2010

How has a policy of annexation reformed the city’s map

From his childhood in poverty and his early promise as a poet to his immense fame and his untimely death

he can see his nest

Edison Ohio Local History Alliance APRIL – JUNE 2010From Pulitzer Prize winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Edison was arguably the most famous man in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image