Thomas Alva Edison Case

Thomas Alva Edison, born in February 11, 1847, grew up in U.S. territory. He was a prominent and prolific inventor, developing devices that made life easier for many people. Edison, however, did not do well in school. In his early life in Michigan, Edison was dismissed from school as being "addled", leading to his mother teaching Edison at home. During his early years, he developed hearing problems due to an accident on the train which Edison recalled was done by the train conductor pulling on his ears, yet it did not stop him from selling food and newspapers on the train in order to secure an income, at which point he found out his influential business skills. His parents were not rich, nor socially eminent, but Edison's mother was very educated, and could teach Edison arithmetic, reading, and writing better than any teacher could have thought Edison.

In his teenage years, Edison had rescued a three-year old child from dying on the railroad, as the child's father rewarded Edison with telegraphy training. He received many jobs for telegraphy, and got fired or quit from those jobs. However, his foremost job for telegraphy was under Franklin Leonard Pope, who allowed for Edison to do his favorite pastime, experimentation, in his own basement, where he developed his first patent for an electric vote recorder at the young age of 21. Very fond of experiments, his experimentations led to his many job expulsions, yet he was committed to his experiments.

His mother's death in 1871 forced Edison to wed Mary Stillwell, a former employee, on Christmas, with whom he had three children with. Even in their intense love for each other, they had many difficulties with their relationship, mostly compelled by the numerous illness that Mary procured.

In 1877, after his move to Newark, New Jersey, Edison continued his telegraphic inventions. However, in 1877, Edison developed the phonograph, an invention that revamped Alexander Bell's telephone transmitter by formulating a machine that played back whatever Edison would say to it. This astonished the public and Edison gained massive glory, while a reporter dubbed Edison the "Wizard of Menlo Park".

From 1878, Edison worked on the further development of electrical light bulbs. The Edison Electric Light Co., formed on November 15, worked on patents and experiments for electricity. Work continued into 1879, as the lab attempted not only to devise an incandescent bulb, but an entire electrical lighting system that could be supported in a city. A filament of carbonized thread proved to be the key to the long-lasting light bulb.

Mary, Edison's wife, had died on August 9, 1884, and Edison remarried to Mina Miller on February 24, 1886. With his wife, he moved into a large mansion named Glenmont in West Orange, New Jersey, where he had built a new, larger laboratory.

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