Thomas Edison

By Aurora

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Today I will tell you some interesting facts about thomas edison. First I will tell you when he died and when he was born and his kid’s.Next I will tell you about his invention’s and the lightbulb.Then I will tell you about his education and career.Next the teligraphy job and his power station.Last his movie’s and middle name.

Thomas Edison was born February 11,1847 and died october 18,1931.Thomas also had 6 children and their names were:marion estelle edison,thomas alva edison jr,william leslie edison,Madeleine edison,charles edison and theodore miller edison.

Thomas edison made lot’s of thing like the motion picture camera,the photograph and a long lasting light bulb.He tried many times to get the light bulb perfect it took him about 100 tries to get it just right it's a good thing too because now we have light bulbs.

Thomas edison was once a great telegrapher.he also had a power station on pearl street in manhattan it was the first central power station in the united states.

Thomas’s middle name is alva so his full name is Thomas Alva Edison.Some of his movies include:The original Frankenstein (1910), Boxing cats (1894),and Annie oakley (1894) just to name a few.

Surprisingly Thomas was self educated that must be tough,he also had a job in new jersey as an inventor.

In conclusion I think that thomas edison is a great inventor and person and I'm happy I picked this person for the bistro this year.Thanks to him we now have light.


My sources were:my mom,wikipedia.

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Presentation Notes:

"Oh hello i just came from the lab to eat lunch and relax from a days work inventing is hard work but it pays off in the end just look at this *shows light bulb* did you know that this took me 10,000 tries to get it right good thing thoh right well nice meeting you all."