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Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention
of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark.
However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the
motion picture camera and more than 1, 000 other things. About every two weeks
he created something new.
Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended
school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was
mostly educated. He started experimenting at a young age.
When he was 12 years old, he became a
newsboy on a train. experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his
first work experience did not end well. They fired him when he
accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for more
than five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued spending much of his
time in experimenting.
Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear
and hard to hear others, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many
ways. It kept conversations of every 24 hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind
him to sleep and eat.
Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He
left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of people's life
all over the world.
