Thomas+Alva+Edison+~mitthi+jain+8E

My name is Thomas Alva Edison. I was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, in a middle-class family. I am an inventor, scientist and businessman. I was the seventh child to my parents, Samuel Ogden Edison and Nancy Matthews Elliott. I was one of the four who survived to adulthood even though I tended to be in poor health when young. To seek a better future, my father had moved the family to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1854 (when I was a 7 year old boy), where he worked in a lumber business. I used to be a very poor student. When a headmaster called me “addled,” or slow, my furious mother took me out of the school and proceeded to teach me at home . Years later I had said,  "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint" and at an early age, I had started to take great amount of interest in mechanical things and chemical experiments.In 1857 (when I turned 10), I took a newspaper and candy selling job on the Grand Trunk Railroad to Detroit. In the baggage care, I had set up a laboratory for my chemistry experiments (one of the big steps I had taken that has helped me invent the most important thing mankind needed) and a printing press, that’s when I started the “Grand trunk Herald”, the first newspaper published on a train. But unfortunately an accidental fire caused me to stop my experiments on board. At the age of twelve I had lost most of hearing because I was grabbed by my ear and was lift up to a train. However, this disability did not discourage me and on the other hand I had treated this as an advantage, since it made it easier for me to concentrate on my experiments and research. In 1862 (when I was 15) I had saved the young son of J. U. Mackenzie, station agent at Mount Clemens, Mich., the boy’s father taught me telegraphy. The same year, I had moved to Port Huron Village and worked in the local telegraph office. 6 years later my very first invention was created, the automatic vote recorder for legislatures. This is when my love for inventions increased a ton. In 1879 I invented one of the greatest inventions in the entire universe, the light bulb. In 1881 I created the wireless telegraph. I invented an important automatic correction device for the dictating machine and loads of other things. The light bulb was the biggest success because without electricity our lives would be as dull as a plain brick wall. I mean, can you imagine your life without light? Half of the work you do today would be impossible without my creation.At that time, the light bulb was a dream and now that I’ve created it, I have really lived up to the word risk-taker to my full potential, It took a lot of thinking to be capable of creating things that were never imagined and the main reason why i deserve to be called the greatest change maker because everyone remembers my name, not only my name but what i did to make this world a better place. I am open-minded as i have invented so many things (not all are listed here) and therefore, I am the greatest change maker, no doubt about that!

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