Thomas Alva Edison's Life

Thomas Edison was born

Feb 11, 1847

Thomas Edison was born to Samuel and Nancy Elliot Edison in Milan, Ohio, U.S.A.

Thomas Edison moves to port Huron, Mich

Aug 23, 1854

Thomas goes to school

Feb 11, 1855

Thomas goes to school on his birthday at the age of 8

Thoams leaves school to be homeschooled

May 14, 1855

Thomas' teacher said he was an addled boy making him sad and he told his mum about it. His mum took over Thomas' education

Thomas sets up his own lab

Mar 8, 1859

Thomas sets up a chemical labratory in the cellar of his home

Thomas Edison begins his first of many experiments

Jun 13, 1867

Thomas Edison files his first patent

Nov 30, 1868

Edison becomes a full time inventor

Apr 27, 1870

Edison becomes a full time inventor

Sep 23, 1870

Thomas Edison gets married to Mary Stillwell

Dec 25, 1871

Thomas creates a new invention for Western Union

Jun 14, 1874

Thomas invented a new telegraph system for Western Union that could send four telegraphs at once.

Edison creates the first copy machine

Oct 7, 1875

Edison creates the phonograh

Jul 18, 1877

Edison creates the carbon transmitter

Aug 9, 1877

Edison works towards widespread electricity

Jun 4, 1880

Electricity becomes public

Apr 27, 1883

General electricity is established

May 21, 1892

Edison creates the battery

Dec 7, 1900

Introduced the Universal Electric Motor

Mar 30, 1907

Thomas Edison dies

Oct 18, 1931

Thomas Edison dies age 84.