Effects of Terrorism

People often say Edison was a genius.Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. In 1854, when he was seven, the family moved to Michigan, where Edison spent the rest of his childhood.he went to school only a short time. His family was so poor that his mother, a former teacher, taught her son at home. he learned to love reading, a habit he kept for the rest of his life. He also liked to make experiments.he worked hard. At the age of 12 he sold fruit, snacks and newspapers on a train. He even printed his own newspaper, the Grand Trunk Herald, on a moving train.
At 15, he roamed the country as a "tramp telegrapher." Using a kind of alphabet called Morse Code, he sent and received messages over the telegraph. Even though he was already losing his hearing, he could still hear the clicks of the telegraph. In the next seven years he moved over a dozen times, often working all night, taking messages for trains and even for the Union Army during the Civil War. In his spare time, he took things apart to see how they worked. Finally, he decided to invent things himself.
After the failure of his first invention, the electric vote recorder, Edison moved to New York City. There he improved the way the stock ticker worked. This was his big break. By 1870 his company was manufacturing his stock ticker in Newark, New Jersey. He also improved the telegraph, making it send up to four messages at once. During this time he married his first wife, Mary Stilwell, on Christmas Day, 1871. They had three children -- Marion, Thomas, Jr., and William. Edison moved from Newark to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1876.He was not alone in Menlo Park. He is sometime called the "Wizard of Menlo Park" because he created two of his three greatest works there.
The phonograph was the first machine that could record the sound of someone's voice and play it back. In 1877, Edison recorded the first words on a piece of tin foil. He recited the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and