Who was Thomas Alva Edison

Who was Thomas Alva Edison
103 pages
by Margaret Frith


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Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847, Ohio. When he was a small child, he wanted to know everything around him as I wrote in book project. Before he become twelve, he understood how the Morse code works and he made it by his self. When he was a boy, he got job on the Railroad and he sold newspaper. In there, he bought a small printing machine and begun to make a weekly newspaper. He sold it two hundred a week because it had lots of useful information, for example, local news, train schedules and gossip. That kind of invention made him famous and in 1869, he was 22, he arrived in New York without a job and he found new job easily. In New York, he also found a girl, worked at a same company. They fell in love soon and got married on Christmas day. At that time, Tom was twenty-four and she was only sixteen! They got three children. However, in 1884, she was died of illness. Her life ended only twenty-nine years.

His most famous invention, light, took much time to made. Gaslight had been around since 1800 but it was too expensive and people still use candles, oil lumps or gas lumps. He tried to find good materials for it very hard, but he could not find it a year and half. However, he did not give up. Finally, he got the answer and his did it in 1879.　Then he set to electric lights in park for the December holiday season. People who came there thought that "Wizard had done!".

He married again with smart woman who understands Morse code. He said "Will you marry me?" by the code.　

In October 1931, he was died at the age of eighty-four. His funeral was private. However, that evening, the president Herbert Hoover requested Americans to turn off their lights at ten in evening. It means, for a one minuets, all Americans was in the darkness for Thomas Alva Edison, the man who made the world brighten.

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I was impressed with the president's request. It sounds so nice. If he did not invent anything, what would the world be? I said thank you to him in my heart. Thanks to Edison (?), I can type AR blog like this, at this moment! lol

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not difficult and fun to read. His life had lots of changes.