Thomas Alva Edison, born on February the 11th, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas edison had a great impact on the world with a world record of 1,093 individual or collaborate patents throughout his 84 years of life. He was the inventor of many products we still use to this day like the Lightbulb, the Telegraph which was later innovated as well as Motion Picture and his very first invention the Electrographic Vote Recorder. Thomas edison came from a family of 7 and was the youngest of them. Samuel and Nancy Edison were his parents. His father Samuel Edison was an exiled political activist that came from canada, His mother on the other hand was a successful school teacher which had a major impact on Thomas's life as a kid. As a kid he got scarlet fever …show more content…
His mother Quickly pulled him out of the school and began to teach him at home. When he was only 11 he showed a love for knowledge, reading books of all different kinds of subjects. This love for him gave him a special skill that would follow him throughout his life this was his self-educative abilities. Edison worked on a railroad and sold newspapers when a predicament happened he was kicked off and was not allowed back on during his time there he saved a 3 year old from being run over by a train as a reward for heroism the child's dad taught him how to operate a telegraph. By the age of 15 Thomas had learned enough about telegraphs to be employed as a telegraph operator. Thomas for the next five years traveled all through the midwest as an itinerant telegrapher, taking the place of those that had gone to the civil war. In most of his spare time he read, studied and experimented with telegraph technology which allowed him to become familiar with electrical science. In 1869 at the age of 22 Thomas moved to NY and developed his first invention which was an improved stock ticker called the Universal Stock Printer, Which aligned multiple stock tickers