(1) childhood

Edison was born in a snowstorm at 3 am on February 1847+0 1. His father also took him to the streets to brag to others. Everyone calls him Al. Edison loved to ask questions when he was a child, and he often asked strange questions, which made people feel very annoyed. His family and pedestrians on the road are the objects of his inquiry. If he is not satisfied with the adults' answers, he will ask them himself. Mother told him that the goose was hatching eggs, and Al thought that if the goose could hatch eggs, so could I. A few days later, mom and dad found Al crouching in the wooden house, wondering what he was doing. When the family found Al incubating eggs, everyone burst into laughter.

When Al was eight years old, he went to primary school, but after only three months of classes, he dropped out. When Al is in class, his mother is often called to the school to talk to the teacher. This is because Al often asks some questions that the teacher thinks are strange. The teacher thought he was a mentally retarded child, so his mother decided to teach Al herself and was determined to make Al a great genius. In this way, Al began his self-study course, and Al was well taught by his mother. Later, Al also got permission to set up a laboratory in the basement. In order to prevent others from tampering with his experiments, Al also came up with a clever idea, that is, to put poison labels on the bottles of each experiment.

One morning when he was twelve years old, Al suddenly said to his mother, Mom, I want to sell newspapers, okay? Mom was shocked and dad was angry. But at Al's repeated requests, his parents finally agreed. He happily ran to the railway company and got permission to sell newspapers on the train. It's a hundred kilometers from Port Sheron to Detroit. After working as a newspaper boy in the car for several months, Al opened two stores in Detroit, one selling magazines and the other selling vegetables, fruits and cream. And agreed to share the prize money with them. Soon, another train was added to the railway, and Al sent a newsboy to sell it. In this way, a newsboy of 12 years old unconsciously became a young capitalist.

(2) Wandering years

Another time Edison lost his job because he used his invention in the wrong place-at that time, he worked as a night shift operator in the railway bureau. According to the regulations of the Railway Bureau, after 9 pm, the operator should send a signal to the train service center every hour to prevent the staff from sleeping lazy. So Edison made an automatic timing transmitter, which made Edison the most punctual and reliable transmitter in the whole situation. However, during an inspection, the train service director found Edison asleep, a delicate machine. Although the director appreciated his talent, the railway bureau needed an honest and quiet person, not an inventor, so Edison was fired again!

Before 2 1 year-old, Edison changed jobs frequently and ran around in some telecom and telegraph companies until he came to new york. With his mechanical knowledge and excellent maintenance technology, he slowly became famous and set up his own engineering company, specializing in manufacturing and improving some commercial machines, such as gold market monitors, stock market monitors, gold price printing machines and other commercial machines, while developing and contracting various scientific instruments.

(3) The genius of Romon Garden

1876, Edison established his experimental invention center in Romon Garden in southern New York, which is what we usually call "Edison Invention Factory". There are excellent equipment and instruments, and a group of talented experts. From 1876 to 1887, this group of scientists led by Edison carried out systematic, complex and diverse scientific research and development work here. If Edison's invention in Monroe Garden is listed as a table, I'm afraid that table will extend from the table to the floor. Many things in it are unfamiliar to us, but many of them are closely related to our lives.

(4) Young inventors

Shortly after Edison founded the newspaper, one day he saw a child playing on the tracks in front of the train. He jumped off the platform and saved the child from under the train wheels. The boy's father happens to be the stationmaster. He was very grateful and offered to teach Tom to be a telegraph operator. In order to repay Edison, the stationmaster taught Edison telegraph technology and made him a telegraph technician. Soon, Edison went to the telegraph office as a telegraph operator. Because he works at night and can do experiments during the day, the telegraph office stipulates to send a letter to the other party every hour. In order to sleep, he invented a machine that can automatically send messages and help him post letters, but he was finally found and dismissed. In this way, Edison often lost his job and became a wandering telecom mechanic, and his life was very unstable. One day, he heard the good news that South America was recruiting telecom technicians, but when they were going to South America, an old uncle told them that it was not good there, so the idea of going to South America disappeared, so he returned to his hometown-Port of Rest. During his wandering, Edison also studied hard, did experiments, studied and worked for him.

During Edison's return to China, his good friend Adams helped him find a job as a telecom mechanic in Boston, where Edison invented the automatic voting machine, which was Edison's first patented invention. Automatic voting machine is a machine with green and red buttons. Press the green button for "Yes" and the red button for "No". After the machine was finished, he went to Washington to do experiments with the machine. After arriving in Washington, the experimental results were very good, but members of the Committee still told Edison that the machine was not very practical. Sitting on the train home, he thought that "most of the inventions that inventors come up with in their minds are not practical, and only inventions that naturally arise from social needs are meaningful." Edison's first invention, though it failed in this way, taught Edison a valuable lesson. He became a successful inventor in the future because of the policies established at that time.

Edison continued to work hard and create his world for his curiosity and thirst for knowledge.