Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On

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'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231).
Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper called The Herald. On day, he had two arms full of papers and was trying to climb into the freight car (Day and McNeil 231). The conductor helped him, so to speak. The conductor took him by both ears to lift him into the car. Thomas had felt something snap in his head, and his deafness had started. It didn't bother him though it just helped him concentrate on his work without the outside distractions (Day and McNeil 231). When he was fifteen, he saved the life of the baby son of a station agent at Mount Clemens, Michigan. Edison was standing on the station platform when all of a sudden, he saw that a freight ...

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