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Thomas Alva Edison
He was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio -
He fell...
At age of three, He fell into a grain elevator and nearly drowned in the grain because he wanted to see how the elevetor worked -
His father...
At age four, 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 dock -
His mother...
When he was seven, his mother, who had been a teacher, took him out of school and taught him at home, because his teacher thought his constant questions were a sign of stupidity -
He set up...
When he was about ten, he set up a chemistry lab in tne basement in his home, and during one of his experiments, he set the basement on fire and nearly blew himself up -
He went...
When he was twekve, he went into a business, toearn money to pay for the chemicals for his experiments -
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He gave a friend...
He gave a friend a triple dose of SEILITZ POWDERS, because to try to make him fly -
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His experiments
He was forced to stop his experiment because a stick of phsphorous started a fire -
He became...
At sixteen, he became as facinated by electricity as he had been with chemistry -
He chanched...
By the age of 21 he had chanched from an experimenter to inventor and worked full-time on his inventions -
New Jersey
He moved to New Jersey, to a large place where he could expand his work. He established his own research centre there -
He intoduced...
He intoduced his first great invention, the phonograph, to the world -
He showed his greatest invention
The first incadescent light that was practical for society to use. Other inventors had produced eletric lighting in laboratories, but none produced lights that were long-lasting enough to be sold to consumers -
He died
On the day he died, the american president asked everyone in America to turn off their eletric lights for one hour, as a tribute to his genius
