Edison

Edison Aside from his amazing history as an adult, Thomas Alva Edison lived an equally exciting childhood. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. At the time, his father was owner of a successful shingle and lumber company. However, with new railroads being built through Milan, his father lost customers to the bigger companies that began to open. The Edison’s were forced to move to Port Huron, where he first began his education. When he was only seven years old his teacher, the Reverend G.B. Engle, considered Thomas to be a dull student and was terrible in math. After three months of school his teacher called him addled, which means confused or mixed up. Thomas stormed home. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk to Reverend Engle. He told her that Thomas couldn’t learn. His mother became so angry with the strict Reverend that she decided to home-school him. After a while his mother, a former teacher herself, recognized his unusual abilities to reason. She quickly got him interested in History and Classic books. Thomas, however, was strangely attracted to the subject of science. By the age of ten Thomas Edison had edison, new, light, time, thomas, made, invention, working, after, one, began, while, ticker, soon, projector, machine, invented, same, out, man, life, however, electric, became, around, able, zoopraxiscope, worked, work, very, using, telegraphy, telegraph, stock, started, second