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Thomas Alva Edison, probably the greatest inventor that America has produced, was born at Milan, Ohio, on February nth, 1847. According to family records, the paternal ancestor of the Edisons landed in New Jersey, from Holland, about the year 1730. The family on Edison's mother's side, the Elliotts, was of Scotch-English origin and settled in New England prior to 1700. The Edisons were a ...
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- The little town of Milan, Ohio, is to-day-
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prises. Not alone for his achievements, but for his indomitable courage and ability to sur- mount obstacles does his career read like a fairy tale. In his boyhood he was "news butcher" on a train, and even then was ex- perimenting in chemistry. But his improvised laboratory nearly burned up the baggage car, and he was thrown out bodily. Later he wa...
tally. one-millionth of one percent about anything. Why, we don't even know what water is. We don't know what is. We light don't know what gravitation is. We don't know what enables us to keep on our feet, to stand
up. don't know what electricity is. We don't know what heat is. We don't know anything about magnetism. We have a lot of hypotheses, but that's all."
go on beyond the province of this book, to fol- low the great Wizard's zealous, untiring course, and to aid perchance in solving the mystery of some of these things, which are for the most part so common that most of us are incapable of recognizing them as problems at all.
noted chiefly as the birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison. But on that cold winter afternoon,
which was to have such influence in the lives of all mankind, it was a hummingly prosperous little grain-market, filled with bursting gran- aries which were loaded out to Eastern ports by way of the thrifty Milan canal. The Edison home stood within close view of the busy wharf, and something of its hustle and bustle must have communicated itself to...
like the perfect machines of to-day as one could well imagine. The cylinder turned by hand THOMAS A. EDISON 75 and the indentations were to be made on tin- foil. For the first phonograph was planned to make its own sound pictures and then to reproduce the sound on the spot. Edison looked at the machine a bit dubiously, and the boys gathered laugh...
12. Nov. 2019 · Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. 128 p. : 23 cm. A biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the electric lighting system and the phonograph. Includes bibliographical references (p. 119) and index. Access-restricted-item. true.
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3. Juni 2019 · A comprehensive edition of the papers of Thomas Alva Edison (1847 –1931), American inventor and businessman. He invented or developed the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class fam-ily in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal edu-cation, Edison became a household name for his inventions that ushered in a new era of modernity with light and sound in every home. With more than 1,000 patents and inven-tions that inspired people through-out ...
