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Early Life
Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison and Nancy Edison. His teachers, considered Thomas to be a dull student and called him addled. His mother took him out of school and decided to home-school him
Famous Inventions
Phonograph, in 1877
Good Businessman
As a child, he grew vegetables and sold them in town. At 12 he got a job selling newspapers on a train, and, At 15, started his own weekly newspaper, which he printed on an old printing press on the train. Improvements for the telegraphic devices brought him financial promise
Edison Electric Light Company - 1876