Last year, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) attempted to bring Black Friday, or at least a day when people get equally excited about shopping, to July. Called Prime Day, the inaugural summer sale exclusively for Prime members was a mixed success for shoppers, but a financial home run for the company.
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 Alva Edison, Jr. Thomas Alva, Junior, was born on January 10, 1876. Since his sister Marion was nicknamed âDot,â he was nicknamed âDash.â He boarded at St. Paulâs School in Concord, New Hampshire and the J.M.Hawkins School in Staten Island, New York.heodore Miller Edison was born at Glenmont on July 10, 1898. Edison was 51 when his son was born. He was named after a beloved brother of Mina who had just died in the Spanish-American War.