Thomas Edison

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  • BIRTH

    BIRTH
    BORN THOMAS ALVA EDISON ON FEBUARY 11 1847 FROM MILAN OHIO

  • CHILDHOOD

    CHILDHOOD
    LIVED IN PORT HURON MICHIGAN AS A BOY. HE LEFT SCHOOL. HIS DAD BUILT A 100 FT. TOWER AND PEOPLE WOULD PAY 25 CENTS TO GO UP.ONCE HIS FRIENDS GOT INTO HIS LAB SO HE LABLED ALL HIS CHEMICLES POISON. HE GOT LOTS OF BLOODY NOSES AS A BOY . AND HE PUT NOTES ON ALL THE HANKERCHIFS HE WROTE IN BLOOD ON THE HANKERCHIFS.

  • HEARING

    HEARING
    HE WAS HARD OF HEARING FOR HIS LIFE. but that didn't stop him from being a scientist

  • fonograph

    fonograph
    INVENTED THE FONOGRAPH FOR PEOPLE TO TALK FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE. so thats one of the best 18th centery inventions ever

  • TIN FOIL FONAGRAPH

    TIN FOIL FONAGRAPH
    THE TIN FOIL FONAGRAPH WAS MADE BEFORE THE REGALUR FONAGRAPH.

  • THE LIGHTBULB

    THE LIGHTBULB
    IVENTED THE CARBON FILLED LIGHT BULB. bamboo was used for the carbon filter. but he did not make the first lightbulb ever
    quote thomas edison. he found 14,000 ways not to make a lightbulb

  • Death Date

    Death Date
    Thomas Edison was in his house and fainted at the age 84.After he fainted he died. on october 18th 1931