Thomas Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio who died in 1931. He is best known for inventing the first practical incandescent light bulb and improvements to the telephone. Edison had six children with his first wife Mary Stilwell who he married in 1871 and later married Mina Miller in 1886 after Mary's death. Throughout his career, Edison patented over 1,000 inventions.

2. Thomas Edison was born on February 11,1847
and he died October 18,1931.
Thomas was born Milan, Ohio.

3.  Thomas
Edison had 6 kids named Marion
Estelle Edison Thomas Alva Edison Jr. William
Leslie Edison Madeleine Edison Charles Edison
Theodore Miller Edison.
 Thomas
Edison married a woman named Mina
Miller ( 1886 - 1931) and Mary Stilwell (1871 1884).

4.  Thomas
Edison invented a phone.
 Thomas
Edison studied the cooper union.

Edison did not invent the first electric light
bulb.

5.  One
quote that Thomas had was I have failed
I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
 Another
one is Our greatest weakness lies in
giving up. The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.

6.  Thomas
Edison tried to make a long lasting
light bulb .
 Thomas
Edison also invented Electricity and
Light bulb and a phone

7.  Thomas
Edison invented a light blub but that
not the only thing that he invented the other
thing is a phone
 He
wasn’t the first to make a phone and
Thomas Edison was a scientist that worked
by his self

8.  On
February 24, 1886,Thomas Edison married
Mina Miller (1866–1947) in Akron, Ohio
 Thomas
Edison married Mary Stilwell on
December 25, 1871m. (1871–1884)

9.  These
are the reasons why I pick Thomas
Edison I picked him because he invented a
phone and I really didn’t know a lot about
him so I picked him because I liked the name
Edison so that was the first name I picked.

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