Thomas Edison is an inventor. Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio and died October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey. He got his education at The Cooper Union. Thomas Edison invented the telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries, and the Kinetograph, which is a camera for motion pictures. All of these inventions were created at his lab in Menlo Park. Thomas Edison was the last of the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. His father was an exiled political activist from Canada and his mother was a school teacher. When Edison was younger he had the scarlet fever leading to many ear infections leaving him with difficulties in both of his ears. Doctors said as he grew older he would be nearly …show more content…
The teachers called him “difficult”. So his mother pulled him out of public school and homeschooled him. He later on developed a process of self- education and learning by himself that would help him in his life. Thomas Edison saved a 3 year old life from a train so the kids father rewarded him by teaching him to operate a telegraph. Edison even published his own newspaper called the Grand Trunk Herald.
At age 19 he moved to Kentucky and worked for The Associated Press. Edison worked the night shift so it allowed him to spend most of his time reading and experimenting. 1868, he came home finding out that his mother had a mental illness and his father had no job. So he decided he needed to take control of his future life. Edison landed a job for the Western Union Company. Thomas Edison designed and patented an electronic voice recorder to quickly tally up votes but the lawmakers were not interested.
Edison moved to New York to work on his first invention, the improved stock ticker. The Gold and Stock Telegraph company was so shocked by his work they payed him 40,000 thousand dollars for the rights. He decided to quit his work as a telegrapher and devote his full self to inventing. With all of his success, Edison married 16 year old Stilwell. They had 3 children. After 13 years married, Mary died of a brain tumor in 1884. Two years later he married Mina