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Thomas Edison Born Feb. 11, 1847, In Milan, Ohio Died Oct. 18, 1931, in Liewellyn Park, New Jersy  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and engineer. His mother taught Thomas at home after his teacher complained that he was to slow. His mother gave him a book about physics and Thomas insisted on testing everything he read in his book, he performed his experiments in a laboratory built in the cellar. By age 12, Tom had already become an "adult." He talked his parents into letting him go to work selling newspapers, snacks, and candy on the local railroad and he had started a business selling fruits and vegetables. Tom was completely deaf in his left ear and 80% deaf in his right.  Tom's first invention was an electric vote recorder; there was a slight problem with this invention. Nobody wanted to use it!!! Some of his other inventions are: <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">And probably his two most famous inventions would be the Battery and the Light bulb. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">I'm pretty sure that tom was a physicist. Sorry that I couldn’t get a 100% answer on this but the internet was saying all different things. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1881 Edison was awarded the French Legion of Honour and in 1889 Italy made him a Grand Officer of the Crown. He received awards from many other countries including Chile, Britain, Japan and Russia. Henry Ford built a museum, consisting mainly of Edison's inventions, in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1929 the museum held a celebration, called Light's Golden Jubilee, to mark the 50th anniversary of the invention of the electric light. In 1887, Edison won the Matteucci medal. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tomas had a ** great ** contribution to society. He invented 1093 inventions and with his invention of the battery and light bulb, I can imagine that it would have had an incredible impact on the society. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">If I was to become a scientist I would be a Engineering Technologist because I have always been interested in engineering and I think it would be a great, fun job. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bibliography <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.google.com] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.wikipedia.org] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.answers.com] [|www.thomasedison.com]
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