Thomas Edison

             Thomas Alva Edison.
             Thomas Alva Edison was born in Mila, Ohio in 1847. Seven years after he was born Edison and his family moved right here in Michigan. Here he attended school for only three months. This being his only form of public education. After these three months, his mom continued on teaching him things such as reading, writing, and math. Along with all of these subjects, she also read to him a lot and taught him some English literature, including things from Shakespeare, Dickens and others. .
             When he turned twelve he started a job at the Grand Trunk Railroad. Here he sold many things such as newspapers, candy, apples, and various other things. This was about the time he noticed his hearing was going downhill. Probably his hearing disability was cause by childhood diseases especially scarlet fever. In an entry he wrote in his diary he stated "I haven't heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old." .
             Two years later, when he turned 15 he still worked at the Grand Trunk Railroad. This is when he bought a small printing press. He installed this in a baggage car and began printing, editing, and selling a newspaper called the "Weekly Herald". He sold this now at the Grand Trunk Railroad. This same year .
             he saved a three-year old from being hit by a boxcar. Little did Edison know his heroic moves helped him out for the future a lot. The little boy's father was a station master in Mount Clemens, Michigan. This man offered to teach Edison all the different things and how to operate the telegraph. Of course, being interested in these such things, Edison accepted this offer. He learned for approximately five months how to receive and send dispatches. After learning all there is to know about the telegraph, Edison spent the next four years traveling very many places as a telegrapher. Through all of this he spent most of his earnings on electrical instruments and labs; he would take the instruments apart and put them back together.