The definition of the word honor is, “High respect, as for worth, merit, or rank.” There are many different definitions for the word honor but this is the one that I view as the most truthful and meaningful to me. I believe that honor is respect and care for what a person has done and that person themselves. Thomas Edison was a scientist who was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was one of the seven children that his parents Samuel Edison and Nancy Elliot, but he was definitely different from most kids. He could not talk until he was four years old and once he did talk, all he did was ask questions. He wanted to know how the world worked and why people couldn’t tell him how it worked. If the diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) had existed when he was alive, many people believe that he would have been diagnosed with it. With his …show more content…
That is how he grew up, constantly asking questions and learning as much as possible. He forced one of his teachers to lose his patience with him because he questioned the teacher so much and got angry when the teacher didn’t know something. All of this thirst for knowledge led to him being extremely intelligent as a grown man. With all of his knowledge and all of his intelligence, he became a successful inventor. So not only did he have tons of knowledge but he also used it to invent things that helped everyday life. He invented the light bulb, which would change the world forever. Inventing the light bulb opened up a whole new world into electricity and technology. If he hadn’t invented the light bulb when he did, who knows what we would have for electricity? But the light bulb was not the first thing that he invented. Nor was it his biggest achievement. Before Thomas Edison had invented the light bulb, he invented the phonogram and the telegram, opening up the door for cell phones and communication through