Thomas Alva Edison was an inventer that invented many many things. His most famous invention was the lightbulb. well, he didn't really create the lightbulb. he just made it better. Other things he made were the Phonograph and the motion picture camera. Edison was born in Michigan (GO BLUE!!!) and had 6 other family members, and a mother and father. He was only in an official school for about 3 months and was homeschooled by his mother for the rest of his educational life. At one point in his life, he saved a little boys life from getting hit by a train. Then, His father trained him to be a telegraph operator. He stayed in this job for many years.
At the age of 39, Edison married a 20 year old girl by the name of Mina Miller. They then had three children, Madeleine, Charles, and Theodore. All of them went on the be extremely succesfull and did amazing things. But later on, Thomas created the light bulb in his laboratory in Menlo Park New Jersey. Most of the patents he had were on utility patents that lasted for 14 to 17 years. He also made the phonograph. It was pretty much a recorder for recording sounds and reproducing them. In his final lightbulb he used a carbon filiment.
This Is a photo of Edison around the time that he completed his lightbulb. this was in 1880. Edison died in October 18th, 1931, due to complications with his diabetes. He died in his home in Llewellyn park, in West Orange, New Jersey. He has some famous quotes. two are "I have not failed, I just found 10000 ways that won't work." and "Genious is 1 percent insperation and 99 percent persperation." Here is a link to a website with plenty of famous quotes by Thomas Edison.
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