Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison biography

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? Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.?

 

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. Thomas was one of seven children. He went to school for 3 months in 1855 and then he had home schooling by his mother. He read Shakespeare, history books, the bible, and science books. His first science book he read was the School of Nature Philosophy. This book was full of experiments that Edison could do at home. From that moment on, science was all that was in his mind.

 

Edison was twelve years old when he got his first job at the new railroad. He was a newsboy. He would go up and down the train selling newspapers and even refreshments like peanuts, popcorn, chewing gum, and candy. He would yell out the choices to catch the passenger?s attention. He did this because the family needed money, and he needed money for his chemicals and for his experiments.

Edison was sick with a fever. This illness may have been the cause of his deafness later in his life. One day, while he was running to climb into a freight car with both his arms full of newspapers. Stevenson, the conductor grabbed him by both ears and lifted him into the car. Edison felt something snap in his head. Soon after, he became deaf.

 

Thomas A. Edison invented 1,093 inventions. His first invention was when he was 21 years old. He invented the vote-recorder in 1869. Thomas was paid $40,000 by Western Union to buy his improvements. Thomas Edison?s favorite invention was the phonograph. He also invented the light bulb in which people have been trying to invent. It took him two years to invent the light bulb.

 

Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18, 1931. He was buried in Orange, New Jersey. He left behind six children. He had three from his first wife Mary Stilwell and three from his second wife Mina Miller.