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Thomas Edison
- By Gemma Rate, Becky Dennis, Emily Yong and
Susannah Lewis.
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Who was Thomas Edison
- He was an American
- businessman and inventor.
- He was born in Milan, Ohio
- in 1847.
- He holds 1,097 U.S patents
- in his name.
- He died in 1931.
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Biography Early life
- Thomas Edison was the seventh and last child of
his parents Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. and Nancy
Matthews Elliott. - Thomas Edison only received 3 months of official
schooling, after that he was home schooled. - He became hard of hearing at the age of 12
- His family moved to Port Huron in Michigan when
the railroad bypassed Milan. - He became a telephone operator after he saved a
boy named Jimmie Mackenzie from being hit by a
train. - Jimmie Mackenzies father trained him as a
telephone operator after he saved his son.
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Career and Inventions
- Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, which
was the electronic vote recorder, on October 28,
1868. - He became an inventor in Newark, New Jersey and
in 1877 invented the phonograph. - Edison invented the first commercially practical
light. - In 1874 Thomas Edison invented the quadruplex
telegraph that could send 4 telegraph signals
over the same wire at the same time. The rights
for this invention were later sold for 10,000.
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List of some of Edisons Patents
- Electro-Magnets
- Printing-Telegraphs
- A Kinetoscope
- An improved lightbulb
- Electric Telegraphs
- Dynamo or Magneto Electric Machine
- Telephones
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