First of all, Thomas Edison wasn't the typical person in his early life, in fact he was the “Smart-Alec” and experimented with every single thing. Evidence: He was born on February 11th, 1847 in Ohio. Edison was the 7th and final child. Thomas went to school, but was educated by his parents more. At age 14, everyone called him Al based on his middle name Alva. Al started off as an uneducated railroad worker. He was deaf partly due to a train accident, while a worker on the railroad. Al wanted to sell newspapers, but then caught a car on fire with his experiments, so he got fired from his railroad job. His first job was a telegraph operator at age 15. In 1868, he flew to Boston and worked for Western Union Company, where he designed an electronic …show more content…
Menlo park was considered an “invention factory” because of Edison. In his laboratory, he had more than 2,500 chemical bottles. He moved his operations here in the spring of 1876. Edison built his own laboratory, workshop, machine shop, library, and he eventually bought a house. He was experimenting with the telephone, but then realized that he could make a voice recorder. He successfully made the invention and to test it out, his first words in it was “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. Couple years later, the phonograph was huge throughout all the world and Edison became known as “The Wizard of Menlo Park”. Cause of this, the population of Menlo Park grew. Thomas didn’t stay in the glory of his phonograph, he moved quickly onto the next, electric bulbs. Light bulbs were invented before his time, but they only lasted for a couple minutes. Edison made bulbs that lasted about thirteen hours, but then later expanded its lifetime to forty hours and so on. On New Year’s Eve, his invention of the phonograph and the light bulb took place in Menlo Park where incandescent lights were lit all throughout the area. Thomas made an experimental train that ran on electricity, running for three blocks. The final years in Menlo Park, Edison lit four hundred light bulbs in the buildings of Pearl street. Hundreds of people came to look and were extremely impressed. He successfully proved his theory, which