Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to explore how things worked. He only stayed at school for three months. He asked the teacher many strange questions. Most of them have nothing to do with his lessons. The teacher thinks that the boy is not clever and is not worth teaching. When he told this to Edison. Mother, she left school with her son. Because she was a teacher, she taught him herself. The boy has read a lot of books. Soon, he was very interested in science. Edison had built a chemistry laboratory for himself when he was ten years old. Since then, he has never stopped looking for new and better ways to do things.

Thomas Edison was born in 1 1, 1847 and died in 18, 193 1. He is an inventor and businessman who has developed many important equipment.

"The Wizard of Menlo Park" was one of the earliest inventors who applied the principle of mass production to the process of invention.

Edison founded Science magazine in 1880, which became the magazine of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900.

Edison is considered as one of the most prolific inventors, holding a record number of 1 093 patents under his name.

Most of these inventions are not completely original, but improvements on early patents, which are actually the works of many of his employees.

Edison is often criticized for not sharing the honor.

However, Edison obtained patents all over the world, including the United States, Britain, France and Germany. Edison founded the film patent company, a group of nine major film studios.