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Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was nicknamed âAlâ at an early age. At age 11, Edison moved to Michigan where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Thomas Edison struggled in school but learned to love reading and conducting experiments from his mother who taught him at home. At age 15, Edison became a âtramp telegrapher,â sending and receiving messages via Morse code, an electronically conveyed alphabet using different clicks for each letter.
Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Like Ben Franklin, he was both a scientist and an inventor. In fact, Edison patented 1,093 inventions in his lifetime including the kinetoscope, the phonograph, and his most famous - the incandescent light bulb. The Menlo Laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, was to become the first research and development lab in the world. Edison called this lab his invention factory.. In 1879, after 1,200 experiments, Edison made a light bulb using carbonized filaments from cotton that burned for two days.