Exploring Science

Thomas Alva Edison

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 Exploring Science

Thomas Alva Edison

• Al', as Thomas Alva Edison

was called, organised his first
chemistry laboratory in his
cellar.

• He went to school for a very

short time and his teachers
believed that he was not very
bright.

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Thomas Alva Edison • In his young age he

lost much of his hearing
and became deaf.

• He held a world
record 1,093 patents.

•He created the world’s

first industrial research
laboratory.

•Edison’s first major

inventions at Menlo
Park was the
phonograph.
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Thomas Alva Edison

The first words

Edison By 1878, this invention
successfully was known all around
recorded on the the world and Edison
phonograph soon earned the title of
were “Mary had 'The Wizard of Menlo
a Little Lamb”. Park'.

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