Thomas Alva Edison Research Paper

Thomas Alva Edison, most famously known for making improvements to the electric light bulb. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847, as the seventh and final child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Thomas was seven he moved to Port Huron, Michigan. In Port Huron, Edison grew up and was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic skills by his mother. When he was thirteen he took a job as a newspaper and candy seller on a train that traveled from Detroit to Port Huron and back. When he got a break or had free time he read technical and scientific discoveries. From this, he learned how to operate a telegraph.

When Edison was 16, he became a full-time telegrapher and earned enough money to move to Boston at age 21. There he became an inventor and had his first patent on the electric vote recorder. Unfortunately, this invention wasn’t popular and Edison gave up on it. When Edison was 22 he moved to New York. His first successful invention in New York was the universal stock printer. After the success of this product, Edison built a laboratory and factory in nearby Newark, New Jersey. There he made improvements to the telegraph along with other popular inventions at the time.

On February 18, 1873, Edison had his first child, a girl named Marion Estelle Edison and later in that decade on January 10, 1876 Edison had his second child and he was named Thomas Alva Edison Jr. Succeeding these events came Edison selling his factory and moving back to New York, Menlo to park to be