Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison

Poet:Vivian Gouled

Thomas Alva Edison,

​A most unusual boy,

​Never really bothered much

​With any childish toy.

​His teacher thought he couldn't learn

​And sent him home from school,

​But Tommy's mother knew for sure

​He was't any fool.

​He worked as newsboy on a train,

​He learnt to telegraph.

​The way he concentrated

Made some people laugh.

​Thomas Alva Edison

​Had inventions by the score.

​In his laboratory

​He kept inventing more.

The phonograph,electric light

[With fuses, sockets, too]

A super storage battery,

And movies,were a few.

If not for Mr Edison

How dull our lives would be!

We might not have the radio,

The X-ray, or TV.​

​A Story Of THOMAS ALVA EDISON

​Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. ... Edison began working at an early age, as most boys did at the time. At thirteen he took a job as a newsboy, selling newspapers and candyon the local railroad that ran through Port Huron to Detroit.

​Edison died on October 18, 1931, from complications of diabetes in his home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was 84 years old. Many communities and corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their electrical power to commemorate his passing.

​The story is told of Thomas Edison who came home from school with a note. ... This school is too small for him and doesn't have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.” After his mother died, Edison found the letter his Mother read that day: “Your son is mentally deficient.

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