Thomas Edison was born on February

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Edison had a late start in his schooling due to childhood illness. His mind often wandered and his teacher called him "addled". This ended Edison's three months of formal schooling. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her son. She encouraged and taught him to read and experiment. He recalled later, "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." Many of his lessons came from reading R.G Parker's School of natural philosophy.
Edison's life in Port Huron war bittersweet. Partially deaf since adolescence, he became a telegraph operator after he saved Jimmie Mackenzie from being struck by a train. Jimmie's farther, a station agent, was so grateful that he chose Edison his assiant and trained him as a telegraph operator. Edison's deafness aided him as it bloocked out noises and prevented Edison from hearing the telegrapher sitting next to him. Some of his earliest inventions related to electrical telegraphy, including a stock ticker. Edison applied for his frist patent, the electric vote recorder, on October 28, 1868. Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeator and other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained Edison fame was the phonograph in 1871.
On December 25, 1871, he married Mary Stilwell, and they had three children. His wife Mary died in 1884. On February 24, 1886, he married 19-year-old Mina Miller. They had three more children. Charles Edison took over the company upon his father's death, and who later war elected Governor of New Jersey. Thomas Edison died on Oct 18th, 1931 in New Jersey at 84 years of age. His final words to his beloved Mina were, "It is very beautiful over there"
Edison is considered one of the most PROLIFIC inventors in hist, holding 1,093 U.S. patents I his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany