-
He was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio
-
At age of three, He fell into a grain elevator and nearly drowned in the grain because he wanted to see how the elevetor worked
-
At age four, his father found him squatting on some duck eggs in a cold barn to see if he could hatch the eggs instead of the mother dock
-
When he was seven, his mother, who had been a teacher, took him out of school and taught him at home, because his teacher thought his constant questions were a sign of stupidity
-
When he was about ten, he set up a chemistry lab in tne basement in his home, and during one of his experiments, he set the basement on fire and nearly blew himself up
-
When he was twekve, he went into a business, toearn money to pay for the chemicals for his experiments
-
He gave a friend a triple dose of SEILITZ POWDERS, because to try to make him fly
-
He was forced to stop his experiment because a stick of phsphorous started a fire
-
At sixteen, he became as facinated by electricity as he had been with chemistry
-
By the age of 21 he had chanched from an experimenter to inventor and worked full-time on his inventions
-
He moved to New Jersey, to a large place where he could expand his work. He established his own research centre there
-
He intoduced his first great invention, the phonograph, to the world
-
The first incadescent light that was practical for society to use. Other inventors had produced eletric lighting in laboratories, but none produced lights that were long-lasting enough to be sold to consumers
-
On the day he died, the american president asked everyone in America to turn off their eletric lights for one hour, as a tribute to his genius
