PRESENTATION OUTLINE
SURPRISINGLY, HE ATTENDED SCHOOL FOR ONLY TWO MONTHS.
HIS MOTHER, A FORMER TEACHER, TAUGHT HIM A FEW THINGS, BUT EDISON WAS MOSTLY SELF-EDUCATED.
HIS NATURAL CURIOSITY LED HIM TO START EXPERIMENTING AT A YOUNG AGE WITH ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ITEMS AT HOME.
HE SET UP A LABORATORY IN A BAGGAGE CAR OF THE TRAIN SO THAT HE COULD CONTINUE HIS EXPERIMENTS IN HIS SPARE TIME.
UNFORTUNATELY, EDISON'S FIRST JOB DID NOT GO WELL.
HE WAS FIRED WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY SET FIRE TO THE FLOOR OF THE BAGGAGE CAR.
EDISON THEN WORKED FOR FIVE YEARS AS A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR, BUT HE CONTINUED TO SPEND MUCH OF HIS TIME ON THE JOB CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS
HE GOT HIS FIRST PATIENT IN 1868 FOR A VOTE RECORDER RUN BY ELECTRICITY.
IN 1870, HE SOLD ANOTHER INVENTION, A STOCK-TICKER, FOR $40,000.
HE WAS THEN ABLE TO BUILD HIS FIRST SHOP IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
EDISON WAS TOTALLY DEAF IN ONE EAR AND HARD HEARING ON THE OTHER.
I KEPT CONVERSATIONS SHORT SO HE COULD HAVE MORE WORK TIME.
