“GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION”
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor who has been called “The Father Of Electrical Age”.He developed many many devices that influenced life in 20th century.
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, U.S.A. Edison was very intelligent,but showed relatively self centered behavior.He performed so poorly that his mother started teaching him at home.Once Edison said that “My mother was the making of me”.Edison was very inquisitive .Edison became deaf at the age of 12.
One day Edison saved the life of a young boy who happened to be the son of the stationmaster J.U Mackenzie.Mackenzie was so grateful that he took Edison under his wings and trained him as a telegraph operator.Edison’s life went on well after that.
Edison married Mary Stilwell on December 25,1871.He moved to Menlo Park five years after his marriage,there he invented the phonograph.The phonograph was the first machine that could record someone’s sound and play it back.He also invented an incandescent lamp and he was the one who built the first commercial power station
Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18,1931.His death marked the end of an era in the progress of the civilization
Thomas Alva Edison was more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world we live today…
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