. The great American book of biography . THOMAS A. EDISON, AND OTHER GREAT INVENTORS AND THEIR ROB ABLY no man in the United States is better knownor more universally interesting than The Wizard ofMenlo Park, the inventor of the electric lamp, thedynamo, the phonograph, the stock ticker, the elec-tric pen, and the mimeograph, and the discoverer andimprover of innumerable things in the field of yet, high as is the position that Edison has evennow reached, he began at the very bottom. He was theson of a poor man, a village jack-of-all-trades, whose homewas at Milan,
. The great American book of biography . THOMAS A. EDISON, AND OTHER GREAT INVENTORS AND THEIR ROB ABLY no man in the United States is better knownor more universally interesting than The Wizard ofMenlo Park, the inventor of the electric lamp, thedynamo, the phonograph, the stock ticker, the elec-tric pen, and the mimeograph, and the discoverer andimprover of innumerable things in the field of yet, high as is the position that Edison has evennow reached, he began at the very bottom. He was theson of a poor man, a village jack-of-all-trades, whose homewas at Milan, Ohio, where the boy was born in 1847. Whilehe was a child the family moved to Port Huron, his whole life Thomas had but two months of reeularschooling ; the rest of his education was given him by his mother. But he hada restless, inquiring mind, an insatiable appetite for knowledge. When onlyten years old he read Gibbon and Hume, and was fascinated by books of chem-istry, which he pored over long before he could pronounce the names of thesubstances which he read about. When Edison was twelv
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