Biography Of Thomas Edison

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a telegraph operator.He learned the Morse
code and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs.
He had many many jobs, but most of his employers became upset with his
habit about forgetting about his job and working on his own experiments.
At twenty one, he repaired a broken down stock ticker machine. A business
named Laws than hired him. Soon after he was recruited, he put together a
perfect stock ticker machine in his spare time. For his work, he was paid
$40,000. With all of this new money Edison bought many books and
scientific equipment to create new inventions. Then, he bought a factory.
Quickly he had three hundred employers, and business was booming.
He held the factory until he became very sick at the age of thirty,
and gave it up.
When he regained his strength, he ounce again opened up a
laboratory located in Melano Park, New Jersey. From the years 1876 to 1880,
he devoted all of his time to working on inventions. It was there ...

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