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=**Thomas Alva Edison**=
 * Thomas was born in Ohio in the USA, on October 1847. When Thomas was 7 years old, his mother took on the role of teaching him. He was always very frustrated because he somtimes couldnt hear people properly. This was because when Thomas was younger he got diagnosed with 'Scarlet Fever'. Back in those days Scarlet Fever was a very serious, dangerous disease beacause there were no antibiotics. So when he recovered he was partly deaf.**
 * Thomas's mother was the first one that introduced science to Thomas, by buying him a simple science text book that had lots of little experiments in it. He especially liked the experiments that was involved with electricity. He managed to make an elecric telegraph set.**
 * Thomas didn't get much help and support from his family, to buy parts and things he needed for his experiments, so he set up his own business at 12 years old. The business was that he bought sweets and newspaper, and sold them to people on the train, for a little more than he paid for them.**
 * In 1863, he stopped selling things on the train and got hired as a telegraph operator. He did this for 5 years.**
 * Thomas slowly worked on his inventing skills and then finally invented his first invention, which was an electric vote recorder. It was a great succsess but no one wanted to buy it! He learned a great lesson from this invention, he learned that he has to have a market for his inventions before he created them.**
 * Edison went on to create many great inventions. Some major inventions are:**
 * **The electric vote recorder**
 * **The Typwriter**
 * **The Carbon Telephone Transmitter (this got developed into the microphone)**
 * **The lightbulb. (The lightbulb was one of Edisons most famouse inventions.) Edison became a physicist and an electrical engineer. This area of science is important because we use technology every day, it is a major part of our life. If we didn't have lights, the internet, pumps, and telephone lines then life would be alot harder.**


 * He contributed to society because he invented many things that changed our live (as above)**
 * Thomas didn't receive any awards, but he was a great, well - known scientist.**
 * Unfortunatly Thomas Alva Edison died in October 13th 1931.**
 * If I were to be a scientist i would want to be an inventor, because I would love testing and experimenting on things.**
 * By Amy Laing**
 * Bibiliography -**
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 * The book - 'Science in the Eyes'**