Thomas Edison
Tomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio to a middle class family of 7 children. Thomas was the last child, to parents Samuel Ogden Edison and Nancy Matthews Elliott. In 1854 Thomas and his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where Thomas grew up.
Early Life
At age 11 Thomas’s parents tried to appease his appetite for knowledge by leading him to the local library. This skill became the foundation of the many factors that gradually caused him to prefer learning independently.
At age 12 Tomas had completed Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Sears History of the World, and Burton’s Melancholy, he had also completed The Worlds Dictionary of Science and Number of Works on Practical Chemistry.
Young Adult
At the age of 12 Thomas had became a young adult selling newspapers, snacks, and candies on the local train.
At age 14 he began publishing his own newspaper about the newsworthy “scoops” and started selling it on the local train.
At age 15 Thomas Edison mastered the basics of telegraphy. Thomas landed the job by saving the stationmaster’s son from being hit by a train. Thomas was rewarded with heroism and the station master taught him the use of Morse Code and telegraph.
At age 16 Thomas Edison performed many “moon light” experiments where he created his invention called the “Automatic Repeater”.
In 1879 Thomas invented the “electric light bulb” after being disappointed that Alexander Bell had beaten him in the race to patent the first authentic transmission of human voice.
At the turn of the century, Edison had invented the practical mimeogragh, dictaphone, and Storage battery. He had also invented the silent film in 1904 and also introduced The Great Train Robbery in 1904, which was a mixture of audio with silent moving pictures to create “Talking Pictures”.
In the late 1920’s Thomas Edisons health began to fail and he started to slow down and so to speak “smell the flowers”. Thomas Edison died October 18, 1931 (at age 84).
Disability
Thomas Edison was deaf in his left ear, and approximately 80% deaf in the right ear.
http://www.thomasedison.com/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
Early Life
At age 11 Thomas’s parents tried to appease his appetite for knowledge by leading him to the local library. This skill became the foundation of the many factors that gradually caused him to prefer learning independently.
At age 12 Tomas had completed Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Sears History of the World, and Burton’s Melancholy, he had also completed The Worlds Dictionary of Science and Number of Works on Practical Chemistry.
Young Adult
At the age of 12 Thomas had became a young adult selling newspapers, snacks, and candies on the local train.
At age 14 he began publishing his own newspaper about the newsworthy “scoops” and started selling it on the local train.
At age 15 Thomas Edison mastered the basics of telegraphy. Thomas landed the job by saving the stationmaster’s son from being hit by a train. Thomas was rewarded with heroism and the station master taught him the use of Morse Code and telegraph.
At age 16 Thomas Edison performed many “moon light” experiments where he created his invention called the “Automatic Repeater”.
In 1879 Thomas invented the “electric light bulb” after being disappointed that Alexander Bell had beaten him in the race to patent the first authentic transmission of human voice.
At the turn of the century, Edison had invented the practical mimeogragh, dictaphone, and Storage battery. He had also invented the silent film in 1904 and also introduced The Great Train Robbery in 1904, which was a mixture of audio with silent moving pictures to create “Talking Pictures”.
In the late 1920’s Thomas Edisons health began to fail and he started to slow down and so to speak “smell the flowers”. Thomas Edison died October 18, 1931 (at age 84).
Disability
Thomas Edison was deaf in his left ear, and approximately 80% deaf in the right ear.
http://www.thomasedison.com/
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison