Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio and showed a great interest in mechanical things from a young age. He had difficulty in school due to being hard of hearing. As a teenager, he began working as a telegraph operator and continued experimenting. In his early twenties, he moved to New Jersey and set up laboratories to focus on inventing, creating innovations like the phonograph and practical electric light bulb. Edison received numerous honors and patents for his inventions before passing away in 1931 at age 84 as one of the most famous and respected Americans.

1. THOMAS EDISON

2. Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in
Milan, Ohio.
Samuel Ogden Edison, (1804–96,born in Marshalltown,
Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–
1871, born in Chenango County, New York) were his parents.

3.  Thomas’s father had to escape Canada
because he took part in a
unsuccessful Rebellion in 1837 .
 His mother was a school teacher and she
was an important influence in Thomas’s early
life.

5.  Edison was the youngest child of seven
children but four of them survived to
adulthood.
 In 1854 Edisons moved to Port Huron
Michigan .Edison attended public school
here.
 Edison was a poor,unsuccesful student.
Because his mind always was wandered.

6.  He was a hyperactive child and his teacher
called him ‘addled’ (confused or slow ) and
saw him as a ‘diffucult’ child.
 So his mother got angry and took him out of
the school.
 She started to teach him at home.

7. So that, Edison said many years later, "My
mother was the making of me. She was so
true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some
one to live for, some one I must not
disappoint."

8.  At an early age, Edison showed a great
interesting for mechanical things and for
chemical experiments.
 At age 11,he showed a great enthusiasim for
learning, knowledge and reading books on
wide range of subjects.

9.  Edison was in poor health when he was
young.
 He caught a disease ‘scarlet fever’ .
 It cause him to had hearing difficulties in both
ears.
 It was a problem that would eventually leave
him nearly deaf as an adult.
 Around the age of twelve, Edison lost almost
all his hearing.

10.  At age of 12, Edison convinced his parents to
sell newspapers to passengers along Grand
Trunk Railroad line.
 He started to sell newspapers on the road.
Then, after a short time he published his own
small newspaper,called ‘Grand Trunk
Herald’.
 He sold this newspaper with his other
newspapers.
 Thus, he discovered his talents as a
businessman.

11.  These talents eventually help him to found
14 companies,Among these companies there
is General Electric; It is still one of the
largest publicly traded companies in the
world.

12.  At the same time Edison set up a small
laboratory in a train baggage car.
 Here, he conducted chemical experiments.
During one of his experiments, a chemical
fire started and the car caught fire.
 So that the conductor kicked off him and
forced him to sell his newspapers at another
stations along the route.

13. BECOMING A TELEGRAPHER
 One day while he worked for the railroad, He saved
three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck
by a runaway train.
 Fortunately, Jimmie's father was the station
agent J.U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens,
Michigan.
 He was too much grateful to Edison so,as reward,
he trained Edison as a telegraph operator.
 Thus Edison become a telegraph operator at the
age of 15(In 1862) .

14.  . For the next five years, Edison traveled
throughout the Midwest as an telegrapher.
 Meanwhile he continued his scientific
experiments.
 Additionally, In his spare time, he read
widely, studied and experimented with
telegraph technology, and became familiar
with electrical science.

15.  In 1866, at age 19, Edison
moved to Louisville, Kentucky,
to work for The Associated
Press.
 He spend most of his time
reading and experimenting.

16.  But BECAUSE the telegraph technology
advanced telegraphers to “read” message by
the sound of the clicks.
 Edison had to give up his job .Because he
had still difficulties with hearing.

17. RETURNING TO HOME
 In 1868, Edison returned home. When he found his
mother and father in a bad health
 Edison realized he needed to take control of his
future.
 Then so he decided to go Boston.
 He worked for the Western Union Company here.
 At the time, Boston was America’s center for
science and culture.

18.  Here, in his spare time, he designed and
patented an electronic voting recorder .
 However, Massachusetts lawmakers were
not interested.

19. BECOMING AN INVENTOR
 In 1869, Edison moved to
New York City and developed
his first invention, an improved
stock ticker, the Universal
Stock Printer.
 Edison was only 22 years old.

20.  The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was
so impressed, they paid him $40,000 for the
rights.
 With this success, he quit his work as a
telegrapher to devote himself full-time to
inventing.

21.  In 1870, Thomas Edison set up his first small
laboratory in Newark, New Jersey
 He employed several machinists there.

22.  in 1871 Edison married
16-year-old Mary
Stilwell
 She was an employee
at one of his
businesses.

23.  During their 13-year
marriage, they had three
children, Marion, Thomas
and William
 William become inventor
 Mary died of brain tumor
at the age of 29.

24.  Edison next undertook his greatest challenge, the
development of a practical incandescent, electric
light.
 The idea of electric lighting was not new, and a
number of people had worked on, and even
developed forms of electric lighting

25.  But until to that time,
nobody could have
developed a practical
light bulb for home
use.
 Edison could manage
to invent his kind of
light bulb.
Thomas Edison's first successful light
bulb model. It is used in public
demonstration at Menlo Park,
December 1879.

26.  The success of his
electric light brought
Edison fame and wealth,
as electricity spread
around the world.

27.  This period of success turned suddenly in a
bad time because of the death of Edison's
wife Mary in 1884.
 After Mary's death, Edison started to living in
New York City with his three children instead
Menlo Park.

28.  A year later, Edison met
Mina Miller and fell in love.
 The couple was married in
February 1886 and moved to
West Orange, New Jersey
 Thomas Edison lived here
with Mina until his death.

29.  He was honoured many rewards during his
rest of life and after his life.

30.  By the time he died he
was one of the most
well-known and
respected Americans in
the world.
 He had been at the
forefront of America’s
first technological
revolution and set the
stage for the modern
electric world.

32.  During the last two years
of his life Edison was in
increasingly poor health.
 Edison spent more time
away from the laboratory.

33. Thomas Edison died of complications
of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his
home, “Glenmont,” in West Orange,
New Jersey.
He was 84 years old…………

34. KAYNAKLAR :
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
 http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-
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