The Wonderful Things About Electricity

I read a book called Inventors by Martin W. Sandler. I'm going to write about my 3 favorite inventions and their inventors.

First I'm going to tell you about electricity. Electricity is important because if we didn't have electricity we wouldn't have lights.

Before electricity people would use candles or oil lamps instead of light.

The person who invented electricity is Thomas Alva Edison. He invented many things but his greatest invention was the light bulb. He discovered electricity when he was flying a kite into a thunderstorm and his kite got zapped so the lightning reached Edison by the string attached to the kite.

Light is important because if we didn't have a stoplight or a walk and stop sign, it would be a disaster. Everything around us like computer, lamps, and television work on electricity and light.

Thomas Edison:


More about Thomas Alva Edison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

Read more about his patents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents