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=Thomas Alva Edison=

Thomas Alva Edison was a well known and famous inventor. He was very "big headed," his natural curiosity always seemed to get him into trouble, his rough childhood led to him being a strong man, and some failing inventions shows him he cant always suceed in life and failures lead to sucess. Thomas Edison exemplified perseverance by overcoming his rough childhood, having some failing inventions, and his natural curiosity.

Thomas Edison was always very smart as a child, although many people thought he was "out there." He overcame a rough childhood. He was very odd looking for a child because he had an unusally large head and small body. He also had always asked many questions this lead to people thinking he was stupid although he was actually very smart, just curious. Teachers always considered him dumb so, when he was only seven years old his mom took him out of school to home school him. As he grew up, he became a very sucessful man. His mother understood his level of education and that he indeed was very smart. But asking the questions only made him smarter.

Thomas Edison always had a positive side to his failures. His failures always led to sucesses, his first invention was the vote recording machine. Politians didnt accept his idea, devastated he decided that from here on, he would only invent something that everyone would need. This led to many sucessful inventions. He was working on the next greastest invention on earth, the lightbulb. This invention conducted many experiments, he tested over five types of metal to make the light glow longer because with the first type of metal the bulb only glowed for about eight minutes, which many people would be satisfied with if they had invented this, but not Edison. All the other types of metal didnt glow as long or they melted until, he used plutonium. which he discovered to work in 1879, this is when he inveted the sucessful electic lightbulb but it was expensive. If he would have given up on trying to make a sucessful lightbulb we would still be in the dark. Edison never gave up.

Thomas Edison had a natural curiosity as a kid, which always led to trouble. When he was only three years old he fell down a grain elevator and almost drown. When they ask him how he fell in he said he wanted to know how it worked. This incident worried his parents, they told him not to ever do anything like that again. Then again very young, Edison went missing his parents had no clue where to start looking. They searched their farm and found him in the chicken coop trying to hatch eggs like the mother hen. He was seeing if he could do the hens job he was intrigued by what the hen could do and wanted to be just like it. Later on his natural curiosity helped him become a very sucessful and famous inventor.

Thomas was a persevering person because he grew up from being "stupid," and became very smart, Making wise desicions, and becoming an inventor.

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