Thomas+Edison



__**//Meet the Inventor: Thomas Edison//**__

-**Date and place of birth**- February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio

-**Date of Death**- October 18, 1931

-**Family information**- Dad-Samuel Edison; Mom-Nancy Mathews Elliott Edison; Sister(s)-Marion Wallace Edison Page, Harriett Ann Edison Bailey, Eliza Edison; Brother(s)- William Pitt Edison, Carlisle Edison, Samuel Ogden Edison -**Places that he lived**-,Milan, Ohio, Port Huron, Michigan, West Orange, New Jersey, and Fort Myers, Florida

-**Education, Hobbies, and Jobs**- Inventor of the light bulb, the first phonograph, and the kinetoscope.

**- ****Significant Events- ** Surprisingly, little "Al" Edison, who was the last of seven children in his family, did not learn to talk until he was almost four years of age. Immediately thereafter, he began pleading with every adult he met to explain the workings of just about everything he encountered. If they said they didn't know, he would look them straight in the eye with his deeply set and vibrant blue-green eyes and ask them "Why?" So since he was little he was very curious and maybe that was what it seated the idea of a light bulb.

__**//Inventions: //**__ Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. His idea for creating the light bulb was the idea to change human existence by illuminating the night and making it hospitable to a wide range of human activity. There were many problems along the way, for instance he had to try over 1,000 times before he got it right. Thomas's works impacted society in a positive way because he brought new inventions to the world that we wouldn't have thought of. The light bulb was created in 1879, and it took him 12 years to figure it out.

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Thomas Edison had many major event in his life but on ebig one was when he won the French Legion of Honor. Some of his life time accomplishments was that he invented the very first light bulb, the phonograph, the cement and the electric generator. He won many awards one of them was when Italy made him a Grand Officer of the Crown. He got awards from many other countries including Chile, Britain, Japan, and Russia. Thomas Edison is very special because at the age of 14 Thomas published and sold his own newspaper, and wrote a dia. Thomas was a very intelligent person and invented many things that help society today one of them the light bulb. He was also a vey good Business man. One thing many people don’t know about him was that he rescued a three-year-old from a track where a boxcar was about to roll into him.

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