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On this date he was born to a middle class family in Milan, Ohio.
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After his teacher raged and quit his job because all he couldn't handle the students, Thomas was then taught at home by his mother. He also learned by himself from the library books.
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Thomas created and sold his own paper containing topics about the politics and the Civil War by the local Train Station. He made good money that paid for books and his experimenting tools.
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When Thomas rescued the son of the Train master from an oncoming train, the train master was quite thankful and rewarded Tom by teaching him to opertate a telegraph.
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By age 15, Tom was fully educated in operating a telegraph and would later get a job in this field.
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Thomas went to Louisville to work for the Associated Press to print newspapers.
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His mother got a mental illness and his fater lost his job. Tom realized he would have to pay for himself now, so he went to Boston to work some more on his inventions.
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After he went to Boston he Created an automatic vote recorder and had it patented. But nobody used it.
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improved the stock ticker so that it syncronized its transactions. the gold and stock company were impressed and paid him 40000 dollars for rights.
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Went to New York City and fixed a machine. Thomas was then hired to work the printers for a newspaper company.
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He set up his first Laboratory in newark, new jersey.
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Married Mary Stilwell and had three children.
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He expanded his Lab to menlo park new jersey.
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Developed the Phonograph
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He got a patent for his invention of the light bulb and created the Edison Illuminating Company which later became the General electric Company.
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Mary dies of a brain tumor
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He marries Mina Miller
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Got another in West Orange, new jersey which produced lots of bulbs.
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he Applied for his last patent which was an apparatus for holding objects during the electroplating process. some other inventions includekinetescope, magnetic ore seperator, and a system of wireless telegraphy by magnetic induction.
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Died of Diabetes. all light bulbs were dimmed in remorse for the nation's loss. Thomas Edison was a very important man who, with other people started the indusstrial revolution and made some very important products that we might not have had for another 50 years or so. We would be behind the rest of the world by 50 years, assuming that those smart people around the world would already created the inventions.
