Inventor of Multiplex Telegraph
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847. In 1854 the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where seven-year-old Tom Edison set up his first chemical laboratory in the cellar of their large house.
Edison's career as a telegraph operator began when he snatched a station agent's young son from the path of a moving freight car. Out of gratitude the father taught
Edison the new science of telegraphy. By the time he was seventeen, Edison was "on
the road" as a telegraph operator. He drifted from Stratford, Canada to Adrian, Michigan; Fort Wayne; Indianapolis; and Boston.
When he was 21 years old Edison went to New York, almost penniless. By fixing a broken down machine in the Gold an
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