Thomas Edison's Life And Accomplishments

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison was the last of seven born to Samuel Edison and Nancy Edison. Thomas Edison mostly spent his childhood growing up in Port Huron, Michigan. When Edison went to school he often was not concentrated, and he overheard his teacher saying that he was unable to think clearly, this made Edison leave school after only three months of schooling. Edison at a young age developed hearing problems and, scarlet fever left him deaf and untreated ear infections. Edison later said that the reason of his hearing impairment was because of being struck on the ears by the train conductor when his laboratory that contained chemicals caught on fire inside the train thus getting himse thrown
In 1866 at the age of 19 Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky where is was an employee of Western Union where he worked the Associated Press bureau news wire. Edison requested at the job to take the night shift which gave him time to spend time reading and experimenting, which were his two favorite pastimes. This side occupant of his life eventually cost him his job when in 1867 he was working with a lead-acid battery when he spilled su sulfuric acid, which went between the floor boards and went onto his boss's desk below him, the next morning Thomas Edison was fired. Edison then began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with a device called the automatic repeated and other improved telegraphic devices, but the device that gave him his first recognition was the phonograph in 1877, the phonograph was basically a way of listening to music or to record music. At the time this invention was so unexpected and to the public appeared "almost magical". This made Edison acquire the title "The Wizard of Menlo Park". His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved
This had limited sound quality and recording could only be played a few times, but this invention made Edison a celebrity. Joseph Henry, who was president of the Nation Academy of Sciences said that Edison was "the most ingenious inventor in this country.... or in any other" this was a renowned recognition for Edison. The next invention of Edison's that made a immense impact on todays world in the Electric light or other known as the