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Thomas Edison was born in 1847
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He fell into a grain elevator and almostdrowned in the grain because he wanted to see how the elevator worked
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His Father found him squatting on some duck eggs in a cold barn to see if he could hatch the eggs intead of the mother duck
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His mother took him out from his school because his teacher thought that his constant questions were a sing of stupidity
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He set up a chemistry lab in the basement in his home
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To earn money to pay for the chemicals for his experiments, he went into business selling candy and newspapers to the local train and worked on his scientific experiments in his spare time.
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He have a fried a tripe dose of seiodlitz powders,hopping that enought gas would be generated to enable him to fly.
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He was given the chance to learn how to be a telegraph operator,and he then became as fascinated by electriciry as he had been with chemistry.
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He had changed from an experimenter to inventor and worked full-time on his inventions
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He moved to New Jersey,to a larger place where he could expand his work.He esablished his own research centre there,
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He introduced his first great invention, the phonograph,to the world.
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He showed his grestest invention,the firts incandescent light that was practical for society to use.Other inventors had produced electric lights that were long-lasting enough to be sold to consumers.
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On the day he died, the Ametican President asked everyone in America to turn off their electric lights for one hour,as a tribute to his genius.
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He was force to stop his experiments temporarily when a sick of phosphorous started a fire in the crude lab he had set up in the baggage car; the conductor threw him and his equipment off the train at the next stop.
