Research of Thomas Edision

• Birth 11 February 1847
• At the age of nine he received a book on physics
• Thomas set up a chemical lab in his cellar at the age of ten
• went to school for three months, then was schooled by his mother
• Throughout most of his life, Thomas experienced an increase of deafness occurred from an earlier attack of scarlet fever
• set up the first electric power station in lower Manhattan
• Thomas Edision was elected to the hall of fame for great Americans at New York University in 1960
• Died October 18 1931
• Callum Lloyd