thomas alve Edison

young Thomas   edison was naturally curious. He was always asking questions and liked to experiment   Once  when he was very small he even sat on some  goose eggs to see if they would hatch. As young boy Thomas had trouble sitting  still in class so his mother took him out school and taught Tomas  herself at home.He  was a fast learner who loved looking for answers in books. when  Tomas  was twelve he started  his first job. He sold newspapers food and candy on the train traveled between port Huron and Detroit.By the time he was fifteen  he was also selling his own weekly paper that he printed himself. If was full of news about the people  who or  worked on the train. In 1868 when  he twenty-one Edison invented an automatic vote counter  for which  he received his fist  patent. (A patent issued by  the Unites State governments gives an inventor the  sole right to make sell his or her idea.)Unfortun ately the vote counter turned out to be a failure  because on one wanted it. Edison evowed that from that point on he wold invent only tings that people wanted. When  he was about thirty Edsion establishments a laboratory in Menlo park a small  town in New jersey. Iot was here that he invented the tinfoil  phonograph  and the  electric  lightbulb. Edison was granted over a thousand  U.S. patents during his life.  As he became increasingly famous he was called  The Wizard of Menlo park. Edison felt thought that his success was the result of hard work not wizards Genius he one said is one said is one percent inspirtion and ninety- nine percent perspiration.