Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

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Introduction HOMAS EDISON was one of the most important Americans in the nation's history He was an inventor and a businessman and his products and ideas made the world cleaner safer and easier to live in Yet he never held public office wrote a book or taught a class His parents were ordinary people without much money and he didn't spend much time in school People often wonder why Edison was such a huge success As a child he got into trouble a lot and seemed unable to learn or so a teacher said As a teenager he drifted around working as a telegrapher without