Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Ohio. He and his family later moved to Michigan where Edison grew up. When Thomas was young, 13 years old, he worked with a Railroad company called Grand Trunk. This is where he had the chance to have his very own chemistry lab. During the Civil war Edison worked as a wire operator, this is where he gained experience with something called a Telegraph instrument and started doing experiments with them. In 1868, Thomas Edison filed his first patent for a automatic vote recorder after beginning work with Western Union. He later moved to New Jersey and spent up all of his money and all of his time to invent full time. 1871, Edison meets a girl named Mary Stilwell who was one of Edison’s employees at the time. They eventually married on December 25th. A couple years later Thomas invents a new telegraph system where you could send four telegraphs at once. Years go by, and in those years he invents things like the first version of the copy machine, phonograph, carbon transmitter which was used in the telephone, carbon powered lamp, and eventually in 1879 Edison opens an industrial park to figure out how to bring electricity to the public. Three years later, electricity goes public. The year 1900 Edison invents the battery, and thirty one years later Thomas passes away October 18, 1931. On the day of the funeral, the country dimmed their lights in honor of Thomas.
