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Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Michigan.
He was the seventh and kast child of his dad, Samuel Ogden Edison Jr and Nancy Matthews Elliott. -
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In school, the youngThomas Edison's mind often wandered. Because of this he stopped go to school after three months and continued his learning at home with his mother.
As a young boy he develpoed hearing problems. -
As a child he helped the family to earn money by selling candy' newspaper and vegetables.
His first venture was to publish a newspaper named "Grand Trunk Herold".
Thomas Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old boy from being struck by a runaway train -
At age 19, he moved to Kentucky,
He was an employee of Western Union.
He worked at the news room as a telegrapher.
He asked to work in the night shifts, which allowed him alot of time to read and experiment.
One night in 1867 he spilled acid on the floor by mistake.
It ran between the floorboards into his boss's desk below.
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Some of Thomas Edison's earliest inventions were related to telegraphy, including a stock ticker. His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, which was granted on June 1st 1869
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On December 25th, 1871,Thomas Edison 16-year-old Mary Stilwell.
They has 3 children:
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Thomas Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephone.
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The first invention that became famous was the Phonograph in 1887.
The invention was so great and useful that the public started to call hin "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
His first phonograph had poor sound quality and the recordings could be played only a few times -
In 1878, Thomas Edison Formed the Edosin electric light company.
He made his first public deminstration of the light bulb on Dec. 31st 1879.
And he said "We will make electricity so cheap thet only the rich will burn candles." -
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In Oct. 22th 1879 Thomas Edison was succeed to invent the first electric lught that losted for 13 hours and thirty minutes.
A month later he filed for U.S. patent 223,898 for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and cinnected to platina contact wires". -
William Joseph Hammer began to work as a laboratory and helped to develope the electric lamp.
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Mary Edison died at age 29 on August 9th, 1884, of unknown causes: possibly from a brain tumor.
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On February 24th, 1886, at the age of thirty-nine, Edison married the 20-year-old, Mina Miller.
They also had three children together:
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Five years before this year in 1882 he switched on the first steam-generating power station.
Five years later there were 121 Thomas Edison power station in united states. -
In 1891 Invented and patented the motion picture camera. This mechanism, with its continuous tape-like film, made it possible to take, reproduce, and project motion pictures as we see and hear them today.
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In 1910 he finished and perfected the steel alkaline storage battery and made it a commercial success.
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Thomas Edison died At 9 P.M. On Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey. He was 84 years of age. Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: "It is very beautiful over there..."
