#2 Thomas Alva Edison

The famous person that I have chosen for my presentation is Thomas Alva Edison. I think every people around the world know about him and his contribution to the world. Like Ben Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Thomas was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Do you know what is the largest contribution that he made to the world? It was light. When Edison was born, society still thought of electricity as a novelty, a fad. By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him "addled". He ends his school in three months. His mother then home schooled him. Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union. Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. At time, he was sixteen. In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park". The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb. . Besides the light bulb, he also developed the phonograph and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.