Contested Currents
The Race to Electrify America

To learn more about Thomas Edison try the following activities:

ACTIVITY – Recreate a telegraph

Telegraph.pdf

Telegraph.doc

ACTIVITY – Recreate Edison’s electric light bulb

Edison's Light Bulb1.pdf

Edison's Light Bulb1.doc

Edison's Light Bulb2.pdf

Edison's Light Bulb2.doc

BACKGROUND - Who really invented the light bulb?

Edison vs Latimer.pdf

Edison vs Latimer.doc