SCIENCE STAR-THOMAS EDISON

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If way to start the day, reading and writing and
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Hi, Science Stars, I'm Joebeth Boots and welcome to Science
Star Kids only on I Read to Know, iHeartRadio. Today
we are going to learn about a very important scientist,
Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison was born February eleventh, eighteen forty seven,
in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children. Wow,

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that's a lot of brothers and sisters to have. He
was one of the United states most well known inventors.
When he was a child, he got scarlet fever and
this left him almost deaf. He was nicknamed al and
Although he was a very busy, curious boy, he struggled
at school and often got into trouble. His teacher called

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him ad led, which means or dim. Well, little did
they know what would happen. Edison's mother, Nancy Matthews Elliott,
was frustrated with the school and knew her son could learn,
so instead, she taught him at home. After he left school,
he read books from the library and taught himself, but

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learned to love reading and conducting experiments from his mother.
He later remembered, my mother was the making of me.
She was so true, so sure of me, and I
felt I had something to live for, someone I must
not disappoint. Ah, that's awesome. Edison often entertained himself by

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taking things apart to see how they worked. Soon he
decided to become an inventor. When Edison was twelve, he
started publishing and selling a newspaper to passengers on the
train Wow That's Glover. At age fifteen, he became a
tramped telegrapher, sending and receiving messages via Morris code, an

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electronically conveyed alphabet using different clicks for each letter. Morse
code was used across the world by the military, shipping
and the rail system, where messages could be set by wires. Eventually,
he worked for the Union Army as a telegrapher. He
was twenty two years old when he filed his first
patent for the electrographic vote recorder, which helped people in

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the US Congress record their votes in a quicker way
than the voice vote system they used at the time.
In eighteen seventy, he moved to New York City and
improved the stock ticker. A stock ticker is a machine
used by stock traders. When it made a tick, it
meant a change in price of the items they were
interested in. He soon formed his own company that created

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and made a new stock ticker. He also began working
on the telegraph and invented a version that could send
four messages at once in wartime or emergencies. Saved lives
when the Titanic sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, a telegraph
alerted rescuers to the disaster. When you think about how

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he was called slow at school, he certainly was one
clever man. Meanwhile, Edison married Mary Stillwell, had three children,
and moved his family to Menlo Park, New Jersey, where
he built his famous laboratory. He was called the Wizard
of Menlo Park because of the many inventions and improvements

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that streamed out of the doors of his lab. The
secret of his success was not only about his creativity,
but in his ability to create a workplace where he
could spark the creative abilities of other people. He worked
extremely hard and registered one thousand ninety three patents. A
patent is a document granting an inventor's soul rights to

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an invention. In eighteen seventy seven, Edison, with help from muckers,
who were individuals around the world looking to make fortunes
in America, he invented the phonograph. The phonograph was a
machine that recorded the spoken voice and played it back
using the sound vibration of the voice, which made a
needle create in dentations on a drum ropped with tenfoil. Later,

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Edison would adopt cylinders and discs to permanently record music.
He perfected the phonograph by recording Mary had a little
lamb on a piece of tenfoil. How awesome is that?
In eighteen seventy eight, Edison invented the light bulb, for
which he is most famous for. This is, however, not

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entirely true, as the light bulb had been around for
a number of years. However, he perfected it and made
the light bulb practical and inexpensive. Edison later invented the
entire electric utility system to deliver light to homes through
a network of wires. He started the Edison Electric Light
Company in October of eighteen six, seventy eight, and the

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world was never the same again. In eighteen eighty four,
after he had reached the dizzying heights of fame and fortune,
his wife died. He remarried twenty year old Mina Miller
in eighteen eighty six and had another three children. Edison
continued to invent or improve products and make significant contributions

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to X ray technology, storage batteries, and movies. In Edison's
movie studio, technically known as a kinetographic theater but nicknamed
the Black Maria, one person at a time could view
fifty feet of film in about twenty seconds through a
peep hole. Each kinetoscope was about four feet about one

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meter tall, twenty inches square fifty centimeter square. A battery
operated lamp allowed the film to be lit up. He
also invented the world's first talking doll and revolutionized the
cement kilnand his inventions changed the world forever. They still
influenced the way we live today. He won countless awards

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and was very famous. Edison worked until his death on
October eighteenth, nineteen thirty one. Here are some interesting facts
about Edison. Before his mom decided to teach him at home,
Edison only attended school for three months. In eighteen sixty two,
Edison saved a three year old boy from being run

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over by a box car. That's cool, Thomas Edison would
sleep for four hours only in a day, and would
work for seventy two hours straight, especially when an experiment
was about to be completed. Can you believe that? Now,
go and share your knowledge, Science Stars. The world of
science is full of wonder and discovery. This is Joebeth Boots,

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your Science Star Kids Reporter, bringing you exciting fun science
facts on I Read to Know Heart Radio.

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Oh so cool. I'm going back to school.

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I wait to start the day reading and writing and
recess play, math, spelling and history.

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School is just so cool, you say away, no matter
what they say.

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Friends, more learn together, going back to school, Going back
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