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How does the author support the idea that Edison was determined and committed to becoming a great inventor? Cite evidence from the text in your response.
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He began school a little late, around age seven, but he only stayed for a few months. The teachers thought he was too difficult to handle, so his mother decided to school him at home, and he started to enjoy school much more. Edison came down with scarlet fever
when he was 12, and by the time he recovered he had lost almost all of his hearing.
Edison was an inventor from an early age. As a teenager he worked at a railroad, and he converted one of the rail cars into a small laboratory. One day he was working on an experiment and accidentally set the car on fire. His boss fired him immediately!
A few years later, while he was working at a telegraph station,
he tried to invent a battery, but he spilled sulfuric acid
on the floor. The acid soaked through the floor and dripped onto his boss’s desk below it. Once again, he was fired for his carelessness.
EARLY SUCCESSES
Edison was 16 when he created one of his first successful inventions. He called it the “automatic repeater,” and it was a device that could send telegraphs to a station and save them until someone could come in and read it.
In 1868 he moved to Boston to work for the Western Union Company. There, he invented a device that automatically counted votes for local elections. The government did not want to buy it, but it was Edison’s first ever patent.
One year later he moved to New York City. He invented a more efficient
ticker machine for the stock markets. Stock companies liked it so much that they paid him $40,000 for it. It was his first big success.
RISE TO FAME
Edison set up a full laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876. He made one of his most famous inventions the very next year: the phonograph. The phonograph was the first machine in the world that could record and replay sound, and Edison became very famous for it.
In 1880 he invented another world famous device: the long-lasting light bulb. He discovered a material to put inside the glass bulb that could burn for more than 1,200 hours. Edison had a dream to make electric lights cheap enough for everyone in the country to have, so he also invented a system to deliver electricity to houses.
LATER YEARS
Throughout his life, Edison continued to study electrical science and power systems, and he kept inventing. He created the motion picture camera in 1896. He was good friends with Henry Ford,
and he invented a car battery and self-starter for Ford’s Model T car. So many people worked with him in his lab that Edison often had to act more like a businessman than an inventor. He became very wealthy from his inventions.
Edison moved to Fort Myers, Florida in his later years, where he lived with his wife Mina and continued to be good friends with Henry Ford.
In October 1931, Edison died of complications from diabetes.
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He created the motion picture camera in 1896. He was good friends with Henry Ford,
and he invented a car battery and self-starter for Ford’s Model T car. So many people worked with him in his lab that Edison often had to act more like a businessman than an inventor. He became very wealthy from his inventions
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