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He was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio
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He fell into a grain elevator and nearly drowed because he wanted to see how 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 instead of the mother duck.
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When he was seven his mother take huim out of school and taught him at home because his teacher thought his contant questions were a sign of stupidy.
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He set up a chemistry lab in the basement in his home, and during one of his expriments, he almost burn the house.
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To earn money for the expriments he started to work on the train station.
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He was forced to stop the chemistry for a while when he almost burn the baggage car during one of his expriments. The conductor threw him out of the train.
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Once he gave a friend a triple of seidlitz powders hoping that enoght gas would be generated to enable him to fly. This resulted in terrible agonies for his friend and a whipping for him.
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At sixteen he was given the chance to learn how to be a telegraph operator, and then he became as facinated by electricy as he had been with chemistry.
