last child of Nancy and Samuel Edison. As a child he was very quiet, thoughtful

and inquisitive. Because he was not a hardy child he did not attend school until he

was 7. His teacher thought he was incapable of learning, so his mother who was a

teacher took him out of school and started teaching him herself. Thomas Edison had

Thomas' mother taught him how to think problems out in his mind for

himself and he also became an avid reader. he first read about chemistry and

experiments from an encyclopedia. His great passion for conducting experiments

taught him much scientific knowledge. Because of his knowledge other kids teased

and started fights with him. Thomas Edison set up his first laboratory in his

basement of his home in Port Huron, Michi

In 1886 he married Mina Miller. They built a home in West Orange New

started work involving moving pictures which became the fore runners of todays

good business until one day when a bottle of phosphorus fell off one of the shelves

have a small laboratory set up in one of the box cars. in all his spare time he would

lost his hearing and was almost totally deaf in later years.

Board. This board was formed to develop inventions that would improve the Navy.

His wife Mary died in 1884 from typhoid fever. Heart broken he burried

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