Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Edison was born on February the 11^th of 1847 in Ohio, Milan. His father had just stablished there because he had to escape from Canada due to a rebellion between English people and Canadians. Edison was the smallest of the four brothers. 

Suddenly, as a consequence of the crisis, the family moved to a better place in order to find an employment: Port Huron, in Michigan. At the age of seven, Thomas assisted for the first time at school, but actually misbehaved and didn’t pay enough attention. Three month later, he left school and he was thought by his mother, Nancy Elliot, who was an old teacher. The woman put such an interest on his son that he got more and more interested and curious about learning. Furthermore, he was developing a huge virtue.

At the age of 10, Edison placed his first lab on the basement of his house. As he was very imaginative and enterprising, he decided to sell newspapers on the train. With the money he earned, he bought scientific books and magazines. One of his most valuable books was Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity, whose reading influenced him a lot.

From that moment, at the age of 21 he became a self-employed inventor. Although he was talented, he had no money, and he spent most of his youngness working city by city in different telegraph companies. One day a friend offered him a place to live in the storehouse his company, because he was slightly poor. Once there, a necessary machine broke and no one was able to repair it, so in a few seconds, the company had his machine repaired by Edison.

Thanks of that, a well-known telegraph company bet for him and requested him the invention of a printer. It was his first popular invent. He was paid with 40 000 $ and he invest the money in settle down. He got married and had a child in 1871.

Sooner, he thought of the construction of an investigation center full of books, studios and labs. He had many collaborators and eventually, invented the phonograph.

In that period, he married again and became a social man. He turned his lab in a thec-centre called “The Edison lab”, with 5000 employees.

His last gadget was the kinetograph, also related with electricity, and was used for watching films individually. Although he was the inventor, the big success was sooner for the Lumière Brother, who invented the cinematograph.

Edison invented till the end of his life, at the age of 84 years old.

(It is a bit long because it will be my oral presentation) 
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