The famous scientist I got assigned to was a man named Thomas Edison, I knew him from creating the lightbulb, but what I didn't know was that Thomas Edison did much more in his lifetime then give us light during the middle of the night. He did many things in his 86 years of living and this is how it all started.
It was February 11th 1847 when Nancy Matthews and Samuel Ogden Edison Jr gave birth to little baby Thomas Alva Edison at 1:30 A.M. in Milan Ohio. Thomas was the youngest of 7 children whose names were Marion, William Pitt, Harriet Ann, Charlie, Samuel, Carlile Snow and Eliza. Flash forward 7 years later in 1854 when the Edison family moved to Port Huron Michigan, after 12 weeks of school, Thomas’s teachers believed he was to much of
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This is where Thomas perfected his invention of the light bulb, it could now burn continuously for 40 hours. In the 1890’s Thomas spent most of his time in his iron ore mine he had founded in Ogdensburg New Jersey. This very mine was the reason Thomas lost billions of dollars and almost went bankrupt, but fortunately bounced back later on but considered this as his biggest failure. After his big loss with the mine, he partnered up with Thomason Huston and made electric available for all of the public. In 1894 Thomas Edison created the first motion picture movement called the kinetoscope, he then had people pay a nickel to look through a small hole to see and short motion picture movie. Movies were made in a strange building in his lab in West …show more content…
He returns home to his family and spends the next few years trying to find a new way to create rubber which sadly would be incomplete being his last project. In 1928, the state congress awards Thomas with a special honorary medal thanking him for all the things he has done. The sadly October 18th 1931 Thomas Alva Edison passes away in his home of West Orange at the age of 84 caused from diabetes. The country dimmed their lights in honor of Thomas Edison, the inventor who would never give up even till death. Thomas Edison changed the world, he gave us light in the dark, he gave us movies, and music but most of all he gave us