Thomas Edison received his first job in a telegraph office in a strange way.
Around 1882, Edison saw a young boy playing on some railroad tracks, and he saved the kid from an oncoming boxcar.
The boy’s father turned out to be a local station agent, who thanked Edison by hiring him and training him as a telegraph operator.
The U.S. government asked Edison to help design and produce weapons during World War I.
But Edison, a strong believer in nonviolence, agreed to work only on defensive weapons systems.
Thomas Edison held 1,093 U.S. patents, which is still a record.
His first patents was for an electric vote-tallying system, which he tried to sell, unsuccessfully, to the Massachusetts state legislature.
Edison used Morse code to propose marriage to his second wife.
He also nicknamed two of his children “Dot” and “Dash” after the short and long pulses used to transmit Morse code.
Thomas Edison moved from Menlo Park to West Orange, New Jersey in 1886.
His West Orange home and lab are now a National Historic Site maintained by U.S. Park Service.
Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory no longer exists where it originally did.
It was removed to Dearborn, Michigan, where is still stands.
The original location, in what is now Edison, NJ, is market by a tower (pictured), and there is a small museum commemorating the location nearby.
Thomas Edison received his first job in a telegraph office in a strange way.
Around 1882, Edison saw a young boy playing on some railroad tracks, and he saved the kid from an oncoming boxcar.
The boy’s father turned out to be a local station agent, who thanked Edison by hiring him and training him as a telegraph operator.
The U.S. government asked Edison to help design and produce weapons during World War I.
But Edison, a strong believer in nonviolence, agreed to work only on defensive weapons systems.
Thomas Edison held 1,093 U.S. patents, which is still a record.
His first patents was for an electric vote-tallying system, which he tried to sell, unsuccessfully, to the Massachusetts state legislature.
Edison used Morse code to propose marriage to his second wife.
He also nicknamed two of his children “Dot” and “Dash” after the short and long pulses used to transmit Morse code.
Thomas Edison moved from Menlo Park to West Orange, New Jersey in 1886.
His West Orange home and lab are now a National Historic Site maintained by U.S. Park Service.
Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory no longer exists where it originally did.
It was removed to Dearborn, Michigan, where is still stands.
The original location, in what is now Edison, NJ, is market by a tower (pictured), and there is a small museum commemorating the location nearby.
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