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At the age of three, he fell into a grain elevator and almost drowned becuse he wanted to see how a gain elevator works
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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
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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
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At the age of ten, he set up a chemistry lab in the basement in his home
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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.
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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.
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He gave a friend a triple dose of sedlitz powders, hoping that enough gas will be generated to enable him to fly.
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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.
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By the age of twenty-one he had changed from an experimenter to invenventor and worked full-time on his inventions.
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In 1876 he moved to New Jersey, to a larger place were he could expand his work.He established his own research center there.
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A year later he intoduced his first great invention the phonograph to the world.
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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.
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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.