* Thomas Edison was an American inventor of the 19th century.

* Invented things like the incandescent electric light bulb, phonograph, the phonograph record, the telephone transmitter and the motion picture projector.

* Thomas Edison was an American inventor of the 19th ________

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* Born February 11, 1847- in Milan, Ohio.

* At age of 12 - he lost almost all his hearing.
* Possibly from Scarlet Fever or an incident where he was lifted to the train by his ears.
* Did not let his disability discourage him - caused him to concentrate more on his experiments and research.
* Deafness made him more solitary and shy in dealing with others.

* The schoolmaster at his school thought Edison to be an incredibly stupid boy.

* His mother became disgusted at the school, took him out and began homeschooling him. 
* She taught him at a higher level than anyone his age. 
* By age eleven, he established his own laboratory in his basement.

* Edison was home-schooled his whole life - he did not attend public high school or go to college.
* His mother was the making of him.
* Edison felt that his mother gave him someone to live for and to not disappoint.
At an early age he showed a love for mechanical things and chemical experiments.

* Edison spent much of his free time conducting scientific experiments.

* Married at age 24 to Mary - had 3 children - Mary died 13 years later from a brain tumor.
* Then at age 49 married Mena - had 3 more children.
* He died at the age of 84 after he lapsed into a coma following two years of a series of sicknesses.

* Was involved in WWI - named head of the Naval Consulting Board.
* Edison spent time doing naval research - particularly on submarine detection.

* Edison experimented with thousands of different light bulb filaments.
* He wanted to find the right materials to glow well, be long lasting, and be inexpensive.
* In 1879, he discovered that a carbon filament in oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for a long time.
* This incandescent bulb changed the world.

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