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born
Thomas Alva Edison was born on Febrary the 11 of 1847 in Italy Milan ,Ohaio .Her father was Samuel Ogden Edison( 1804 -1896) and her mother is Nancy Matthews (1810-1871). -
grain elevator
At age three he fell into a grain elevator and almost drowned in the grain because he wanted to see how the elevator worked -
duck eggs
And at age four ,his father found him squating on some duck eggs in acold barn to see i he could hatch the eggs instead of the mother duck -
school
Thomas was seven ,his mother , who had been a teacher , took him out of school and taught him at home -
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experiments
He was forced to stop his experimets temporalyty when a stick of phosphoros started a fire in a crude lab he had set up in the bagge car , the conductor threw him and his equiment off the trin at the next stop.
It seemed he was always experimenting .Once he gave a triple dose of seidlitz powders , hoping that enoghgas would be generated to enable himto fly. This resulted terrible agonies for his friend and a whipping for him. -
laboratory
About ten ,he set a chemistry lab in the basement in his home ,and during one of his experiment , he set the basement on fire and nearly blew himself up -
His invents
At sixteen he was given the chance to learn how to be a telegrph operator , and he then became as fascinated by electricyty as he been with chemistry -
light
He showed his greasts invention , the first incandescent light that was practical for society to use .Other inventors had producity electric lighting in laboratories , but none produced lights that were long -lasting enough to be sold to costumers -
New Jersey
He moved to New Jersey ,to a larger place where he could expand his work.He established his own research centre there. -
train
About twelve yearts old he started to selling newspapers in the morning train from Port Huron to Detroit, and vegetables, butter and blackberries. In Detroit the train to a stop six hours, which profited by passing in the reading room of the Association of Young.He want to earn money to pay the chemiclas for his experiments . -
inventions
By age of 21 he had canged from an experimenter to inventor and worked fulltime on his invention -
phonograph
A year later he introduced his first great invention ,the phonograph, to the world.
