Odd Facts About Thomas Alva Edison: The Great Inventor

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Thomas Alva Edison only had three months of formal education. In fact, his schoolmaster thought that he might have been retarded because he asked so many questions. He was born in Milan, Ohio, as the youngest of seven children. At the age of twelve, he began to sell newspapers on a railroad line. Then, he purchased some old type and started publishing his own newspaper, but this newspaper was terminated when a stick of phosphorus reacted and set the box car on fire. He was thrown from the train, along with all of his publishing equipment. Later, he saved the son of a station-master from a rolling freight car and the grateful father taught him telegraphy. Then, at sixteen, he was hired to his first job in Ontario, Canada, as a telegrapher. This was of special interest to me, because my father also worked as a telegrapher for the B & O Railroad, most of his adult life. What did Thomas Alva Edison invent? Stay tuned. Picture by Pixabay