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could find. Since he loved to learn, he always carried a book in his pocket (Cousins 22).
Another main source for learning came from his lab experiments. Later in his childhood, he built a lab to do science experiments, first in his basement, then on the baggage car of the train he worked on (, Thomas Alva). He liked his experiments because he enjoyed finding things out for himself and tinkering with different things to find how they worked. Over time he also came to know how to make money through selling, first papers and food and later inventions (Thomas Alva Biography).
Besides his lack of formal schooling, also had to rise above another kind of disadvantage-by adulthood he was almost deaf. Early in childhood, lost some hearing from scarlet fever. His hearing then got much worse when he was pulled onto a moving train by his ears and he "felt something snap." He could have had an operation to fix his hearing, but later in life he said that not being able to hear well ...

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100 hours (Cousins 65). In a section of New York City, he put the first electric system in place giving light to businesses and houses powered from a "monster" generator (Cousins 122). The incandescent light bulb is 's most famous and the invention that most changed peoples' lives (Thomas Alva ).
also made several improvements to the telegraph machine. He designed an automatic telegraph that increased the speed and range of the existing telegraph. He made a machine that enabled two transmissions over a single line. After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, invented the carbon telephone transmitter. That device enabled two people to talk over the phone without ...

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