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He fell into a grain elevator
At the age of three, he fell into a grain elevator and almost drowned becuse he wanted to see how a gain elevator works -
he was squatting on some duck eggs
At the age of four, his father found him squatting on some duck eggs in a cold barn to see if colud hatch the eggs instead of the mother duck -
He He was taken out from the school
At the age of seven his mother took him out of the school because his teachers thought that his constant questions were a sign of stupidity -
He set up a chemistry
At the age of ten, he set up a chemistry lab in the basement in his home -
He went selling candy and newspaper on the local train.
At the age of twelve, in order to earn money to pay for the chemicals for his experiments, he went into business selling candy and newspapers on the local train and worked on his cientific experiments in his spare time. -
A stick of phosphorous satrted a fire in the bagagge car.
He was forced to stop his experiments when a stickof phosphorous started a fire in the crude lad he has set up in the bagagge car; the conductor threw him and his equipment off the train on the next station. -
He gave a friend a triple dose of seidlitz powders.
He gave a friend a triple dose of sedlitz powders, hoping that enough gas will be generated to enable him to fly. -
He was given the chance to learn how to be a telegraph operator.
At sixteen he was given the chance to learn how to be a telegraph operator, and he then become as fascinated of electricity as he had been with chemistry. -
He changed from an experimenter to inventor.
By the age of twenty-one he had changed from an experimenter to invenventor and worked full-time on his inventions. -
He moved to New Jersey.
In 1876 he moved to New Jersey, to a larger place were he could expand his work.He established his own research center there. -
The phonograph.
A year later he intoduced his first great invention the phonograph to the world. -
He showed the first incandescent light.
In 1879 he showed his greatest invention, the first incandescent light that was practical for society to use. Other inventors had produced electric lightning in laboratories, but none produced lights that were long-lasting enough to be sold in consumers. -
His dead
On the ady he died, the American president asked everyone in America to turn off their electric lights for one hour, as a tribute to his genious.
