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2.  Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan,Ohio 1847 and lived in Port Huron,Michigan.  He lived in a very big family and was the youngest of seven children.  His parents were Samuel Ogden Edison Jr and Nancy Matthews Elliot.  He had to sell candy,newspaper and vegetables in order to make his family’s income there he discovered his talent for being a business man.

3.  Thomas Alva Edison lost his job when he was experimenting lead-acid in his office when he dropped the lead-acid which went through the floor board and went on to the boss’s office below.  He created the phonograph,quadplex telegraph,telephone,electric lighting system, magnetic ore separator but most of all electricity.  He didn’t actually create the electricity he more like perfected electricity and made more cheap and last longer which made everyone think he invented it.  He was married two times and had six children and his first wife was Mary Stillwell and his second wife was Mina Miller  His nickname was the Wizard of Menlo Park.

4.  Thomas Alva Edison pasted away on October 18,1931,Llewellyn Park,West Orange,New Jersey.  He was mourned as the idea of the modern electrical world.  He died due to diabetes.  It would have been worse if Thomas Edison wasn’t alive because we wouldn’t have electricity and without electricity we wouldn’t be able to turn on light,heat water, cook food and do anything at night.

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