Thomas Edison

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847.  When he was young his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he attended school for three months - the only formal schooling he ever had.  At school most of his teachers often thought him dumb because of all the questions he asked to their answers, as well as him having a very large head.  His mother understood that he asked these questions to find out exactly how things worked, and encouraged him to do so.
     By the time he was 13 he had begun his own newspaper named the Herald.  His paper published local, national, and international events, and was sold on trains of the Grand Truck railroad which ran between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan.  Unfortunately, about the same time he began this, an accident occurred that left Edison deaf for the rest of his life.  One day he struggled to climb the freight car while carrying stacks of newspapers.  The conductor of the train saw him and grabbed him by both of his ears, lifting him into the car.  From that day forward, Edison was deaf.  But he said he did not mind.  Being deaf helped him to work on his inventions in quiet and without being disturbed.
     At sixteen, Edison became a telegraph operator.He learned the Morse code and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs.  He had many many jobs, but most o...

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