95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
History That Doesn't Suck
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Alva, My Mother Was the Making of Me by Nancy Edison
Nancy edison, keeps her boy from falling prey to these self destructive thoughts. Alva often gets desperately lost in a single subject. He'll later recall, i didn't read books. I read the library. By age nine, he's reading encyclopaedias on science and natural philosophy. This is where he first reads the words electricity, magnetism, and about the newly invented electromagnetic telegraph.
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