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Thomas Edison Facts
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Thomas Edison was born February 11, in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children.
Wow that’s a lot of brothers and sisters to have.
He was one of the United States most well-known inventors. When he was a child he got scarlet fever, and this left him almost deaf.
Thomas Edison Facts
- He believed that his deafness helped him concentrate on his work without any external distractions.
- Nikola Tesla was once Edison’s colleague, but they went on to become rivals.
- One of Thomas Edison’s most notable inventions was the motion picture camera that he created with a colleague named William Kennedy Dickson.
- He built three electric cars back in , but the cars were never officially manufactured or sold.
- As a child, Edison saved