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The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. That was Thomas Edison’s philosophy, and it led him to create the incandescent light bulb and illuminate the world with electricity. But that was just one of the many groundbreaking inventions Edison devised, many of which changed the shape of entertainment, industry, and everyday life. Meet the Wizard of Menlo Park, and see how he grew from a lonely, inquisitive boy who carried out experiments in his basement to the smart, enterprising, and imaginative inventor who gave us the stock market ticker, helped develop the phonograph and cinema, and even came up with the first storage battery and electric car.

Even as a child, the man who brought light to the world showed a fierce independence as well as a passion for mechanical things. but young Thomas Edison's hearing problem hed his teacher to claim that there was "something wrong with his brain." Nothing could have been further fom the truth. Edison left home to work welling newspapers on trains for a railroad company at the age of twelve. He then published his own newspaper and eventually set up a laboratory in a boxcar-until it exploded, that is. Despite this setback, Edison continued with his experiments. He invented the electric incondescent lightbulb, the phonograph, and hundreds of other marvels, proving his own motto that "the most important way to succeed is always to try one more time.

 

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