Thomas Edison: Inventor and Busy Team Leader — VOA Learning English
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The inventor Thomas Alva Edison had a major effect on the lives of people around the world. Thomas Edison is remembered most for the electric light, his phonograph, and his work with motion pictures.
Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was mostly self-taught. His mother taught him reading, writing, and mathematics. He learned from books, and he experimented.
At the age of 10, he experimented with chemicals and electricity. He built a telegraph machine and, at the age of 16, he went to work as a telegraph operator.
He continued his work with electricity, making improved telegraph machines, and he invented an electrical voting machine.
Edison earned enough money from his…
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