Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On

Part I of Essay
" Born when the world was starting on a technological joy ride, Edison was destined to set its gears 'on high, " writes Mary Nerney, in her 1934 biography, Thomas A. Edison: A Modern Olympian. " With every fundamental invention, he released dynamic forces through mass dem ....

Part II of Essay
.... saw his gift was his mother (Feldman and Ford 206). His mother help taught him how to read. By the age of 12 he was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231). Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper called The Herald. On day, he had two ar ....