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The American Experience: Edison's Miracle of LIght PBS special about the life and inventions; complete program transcription provided as well as film synopsis, timeline, image gallery, and teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/

Edison After Forty A Smithsonian photo-album providing a look into the latter half of the life of inventor Thomas Edison. http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 Complete text of the work by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, published 1910. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Dye1Edi.html

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 Complete text of the work by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, published 1910. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Dye2Edi.html

Edisonian Museum Photographs and short descriptions of various light bulbs, lamps, motors, batteries, and other inventions of Thomas Edison. http://www.edisonian.com/

Inventing Entertainment Devoted to the early motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison Companies; includes overviews by genre and chronology, descriptions of the technology, and selected online audio and video. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/

Thomas A. Edison in Menlo Park Maps, local references, photographs, and excerpts from a local history book regarding Edison's activities in Menlo Park, New Jersey. http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/tae/taeindex.htm

Thomas A. Edison Papers A documentary editing project at Rutgers University seeking to publish the inventor's papers online. Includes patents, clipings, and ntoes, as well as bibliographies, chronologies, and links to related resources. http://edison.rutgers.edu/

Thomas Alva Edison's Boyhood Articles about his early life in Port Huron, Michigan and his boyhood home. http://www.idigit.tv/edison/eindex.html