Thomas Alva Edison Research Paper

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Kenedris Lizama
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Thomas Alva Edison was a popular and well known inventor born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. The book Youthful Thomas Edison , by Sterling North tells about Edison's Youthful life and how he incredibly succeeded through out the a long time. It tells around his most prominent developments and how he got to be the most noteworthy inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He was the seventh and final child of Nancy Edison and Samuel Edison. Thomas Alva Edison acquired much of his insights from Nancy Elliot Edison. Nancy Edison would read books to Thomas Edison around researchers. That's when Edison got interested in When Thomas Alva Edison was ten, he and his family moved to a little town in Purt, Hacon. There he had his possess research facility …show more content…

Edison married her when he was only 16 and had a few kids with her. This pretty much ended Edison's return to Menlo Park. Edison a couple years later though did get married a second time and moved to Glenmont. He of course established a new lab here. He remained here for forty-five years. It was here were Edison made many more inventions and did a lot more improving. One such included the battery. He spent nearly eight years and over one million dollars on this. He did though also perfect this. It was used in many things some such include; electric cars and also even power submarines. To this day people still use batteries based on Edison's original plans. At eighty years-old Edison was still working very hard to improve things. The big thing now was rubber. The USA could not keep up with the demanding need for rubber because we had it imported. Edison though figured out a way to crossbreed a goldenrod plant to make more rubber here. It worked. Sadly 10 days later Edison died. Thomas Edison was 84 years old living in his home in New Jersey when he faced ongoing issues with diabetes which ended up being the cause of his death on October 18,