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Thomas Edison


             We use light bulbs to light up most of the world. They are inexpensive and reliable, Movies started as crude black and white images, but now they are made with elaborate sets and super computers. Cell phones that can get reception anywhere are swarming the globe, but there was a time when only telegraphs were the way to communicate. Everyone uses cds and cassettes to record and listen to music, but the phonograph was first. There is one person that is responsible for most of all technology used today. A person that invented all the originals mentioned above, and more. He was said to have the most valuable brain of all time (Biography of the Millennium, video). Throughout his life, he was granted over 1,093 U.S. patents, the most ever by a single person in U.S. history. Thomas Edison, considered "the wizard of Menlo Park", hadn't realized it yet, but would turn out to be one, if not the best inventor of the Millennium (Biography of the Millennium, video). His determination, lack of sleep, and most of all, his inventions are what made him a person to be remembered as "An inventor of the ages".
             On February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio Samuel and Nancy Edison gave birth to their seventh and last child, which they named Thomas Alva. Not much is known of his life until age seven, when his father's timber business in Milan fell through, and the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. A few months after he moved, Thomas caught scarlet fever, a disease that would leave him hard of hearing for the rest of his life. He entered school at age eight, however he couldn't conform to the routine of school, so after only three months of formal schooling his mother, a former school teacher, decided to teach him at home. He had read a plentiful number of books from the library, which would later alter his life. Reading about chemistry, physics, and other sciences introduced his love for experiments and inventions.


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