"Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!" Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison,
A most unusual boy,
Never really bothered much
With any childish toy.
His teacher thought he couldn't learn
And sent him home from school,
But Tommy's mother knew for sure
He wasn't any fool.
He worked as newsboy on a train,
He learned to telegraph.
The way he concentrated
Made some people laugh.
Thomas Alva Edison
Had inventions by the score.
In his laboratory
He kept inventing more.
The phonograph, electric light
(With fuses, sockets, too),
A super storage battery,
And movies, were a few.
If not for Mr. Edison
How dull our lives would be!
We might not have the radio.
The X-ray, or TV!
By: Vivian Gouled
The Wizard
Who was the Wizard of Menlo Park?
He conquered the dark.
He pierced the night
with electric light
captured in bubbles,
glassy and tight!
Science or magic?
He even found
The way to capture the waves of sound
Upon a cylinder spinning round!
Machines to give us the tunes that swing~
The Wizard produced this wonderful thing!
Relaxing in play, he busied his brain,
Inventing his own electric train.
All his skeptical scientist friends
zoomed up the hills
and around the bends;
than thanked their host
for a wonderful lark~
Tom Edison, Wizard of Menlo Park!
By: Elsie S. Lindgren
Edison
Little Alva Edison
Wanted to know why
White snow fell
From a slate ~ gray sky.
Why there was a rainbow,
Why there was a dawn,
Why there were dewdrops
On the summer's lawn.
His friends and relations
With many a sigh
Called Alva Edison
"Little Why, Why."
But he learned the answers.
And he banished the dark.
Then they called him
The Wizard of Menlo Park.
By: Jean Brabham McKinney
