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    So we all know Thomas Edison, but we didn’t really know what he did for us. So you ask yourself who is Thomas Edison, well he was an inventor and he was well known for it. Was he the greatest inventor of all time? He made the phonograph. Also he made one of the greatest invention and it was the light bulb, but you ask , How did he invent light. What was his childhood like? what was his education like? what inventions did he make? Did he get married? Did he have kids?

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    Who is Thomas Edison? Before learning about his other inventions I only knew Thomas Edison as the man who invented the electrical light bulb. Did you know the light bulb was not Thomas Edison’s only invention? Yes it is the most the popular and is still used today but Thomas Edison is also responsible for many inventions that have helped make advances in Mass Communications. These inventions include the kinetograph/kinetophone, phonograph and multiple models of the telegraph and telephone. Due to

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    This is Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is a famous inventor who invented lots of things that we use today. He was born a very long time ago in the United States of America. Thomas was a very naughty child. He used to always get into trouble for misbehaving such as the time when he set his father’s barn on fire. He was only six years old when this incident took place. Thomas only started school at the age of seven. He was unable to go to school at an early age because he was quite sick and his mom

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    said some form of light containing a light bulb of some kind. Well, before Thomas Edison came along people used gas lamps, and fire to see. Thomas Edison was person who revolutionized the world with his amazing invention of the incandescent light bulb, and he also had other revolutionary inventions. Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio (Edison’s Light bulb). His parents were Samuel and Nancy Edison, and he was the last of seven children. As a child he had very little education

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    Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children. His mother was Nancy Matthews Elliott and his father was Samuel Edison Jr. Edison has gone to school for a very short time, only twelve weeks. He was hyperactive when he was a child and his teachers had problems teaching him. So, instead of going to school, his mother taught him, who was a teacher. Edison also had an ear infection at a young age which led to some hearing loss.       Thomas Edison

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    Thomas Alva Edison was born in February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was the last child of the seven. When he was a child he had an ear infection that almost made him deaf. In 1854 he moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He started public school and attended for only 12 weeks due to ADHD. He was later home schooled by his mother. As a child he enjoyed reading and reciting poetry. At age 12 Edison convinced his parents to let him sell newspapers at the Grand Trunk railroad line. As he worked there he started

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    Thomas Edison was a great businessman who held over one thousand patents for his amazing, tremendously life changing inventions. His entrepreneurship began when he was only twelve years old, when he began to sell his self-published newspaper to the people who passed by him, at the “Grand Trunk Railroad.” At this same exact railroad, he set up a lab and began experimenting with chemicals. At the age of twenty-two he moved to New York, where he worked on his version of the stock ticker. Edison seemed

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    Where would we be today without Thomas Alva Edison? How would our life be different? Thomas Edison probably did more than any other man to influence the industrial civilization in the world we live in today. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life in the United States. Let us explore the life and contributions of Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio in a humble brick house that still stands today. Edison was pulled from public school at the age

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    Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was a Progressive Era figure that deserves a place in history because he patented over one thousand inventions, making the world a better place. This paper will focus mainly on his motivation to invent, the preparation that it took for him to be able to invent so many things, and finally, some of his major accomplishments throughout his life. Motivation Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847, but soon moved to Port Huron, Michigan with his family. In Port Huron

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    Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan, Ohio the seventh and final child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Thomas was 7, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison lived here until he finally went out on his own at the age of 16. In this paper, I will focus on Thomas Edison’s early life, achievements, inventions, and finally his success. He was an American inventor and businessman that benefited mankind and made the world a better place with inventions like the electric light

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