Thomas Edison Biography Essay

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Almost all of Thomas Edison’s life was spent spent enriching the world with his awe-inspiring ideas and inventions. Society would recognize him as the man who created the light bulb, but that was just part of his life. The light bulb breakthrough caused him to become one of the most influential people in the world. However, his introverted personality often caused him to work so much that he often didn’t see his family, thus resulting in an unstable family life, all because Thomas Edison was an inventing genius, but not a very social person.
Thomas was born on on February 11th, 1847, in Milan, Ohio.
The parents of Thomas were Sam and Nancy Edison. Because of Thomas’s curiosity and habit of getting into trouble, Sam often had to be stern and …show more content…

However, that was just Thomas’s curiosity. Thomas often didn’t attend school because of constant sickness. This meant that he must stay at home, so his mother home schooled him. Thomas was not very successful in most of his academic classes, but was an excellent reader, and gained a lot of his knowledge from books. At one point Thomas did attend Port Huron school, but while he was under the care of his mother in homeschooling, Thomas decided to leave home and work as a newsboy and sell refreshments on a train car when he was only twelve years old and able to take care of himself. This meant that Thomas would be constantly traveling far away from …show more content…

Currently today, the use of some of Thomas’s inventions is so great that we are running out of resources to use them for, so that does not positively affect the world. However, in that time Thomas’s inventions were revolutionary and aided many. He was not a very social man, and took to rough atmospheres, where he could keep to himself. But, he was still a good and kind person and overall charming with his brilliance. For all the work he did in his lifetime, Thomas became a famous icon, but also had a Jubilee of Light ceremony dedicated to

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