The+Early+Life+and+Genius+of+Edison

= Frank Leslie's Christmas Book = =The Early Life of and Genius of Edison. . . . . 104 =
 * Thomas Edison had just recently discovered the workings of the light bulb in 1879, no more that 15 years before Frank Leslie's Christmas Book was published. Therefore, the story of how this man grew to produce such inventions would have been of great interest. In this story, a biography of the life of Thomas Edison, the engravings and lithographs are replaced with photographs. Photographs allows the viewer to see a more concrete image of the Thomas Edison. Photography, a relatively new form of illustration, invented in the mid 1800's, would have been considered a more true version of whoever is being portrayed. This biography walks you through the life of this man, and these images create an almost journalistic documentation of the Thomas Edison as he grew into the man that everyone at this time would know. **

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