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THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Inventor and Businessman

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

Electric Vote Recorder


Invention of Electric Light - 1879

World's First Power Station - 1882

More than 1,300 other patented inventions.

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

I ALWAYS INVENTED TO OBTAIN MONEY TO GO ON INVENTING

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