Edison himself gained his expertise in the field of electricity and telegraphy ( the telegraph for communication ) during the teenage years . In 1868 , at the age of 21 years , he has developed and patented the discovery in the form of a recording telegraph machine .
His future , Edison only attended formal school for three months , then all of his education was obtained from his mother who taught Edison at home . Mom teaches Edison Edison how to read , write , and mathematics . He also often gave and read books for Edison , among other books from authors such as Edward Gibbon , William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens .
Edison at the age of 12 years , while earning money by way of selling newspapers and working papers , apples , and candy on a railway line . At that age anyway , Edison almost had lost all hearing because of her illness , the illness makes it a half- deaf . Edison once wrote in his diary : " I have never heard the birds singing since I was 12 years old . "
At the age of 15 years , Edison , while still selling , bought a small second-hand printing press which further mounted on a car trunk . Then he prints his own newspaper , WEEKLY HERALD , which is in print , edited and sold in the spot he was selling .
In the summer of 1862, Edison rescued a three year old son who is almost hit by a car . The father of the child who saved the head of the train station is in place to sell. And as a thank you, the station master taught Edison how to use the telegraph. After 5 months of studying the telegraph, Edison worked as a telegraph for 4 years. Almost all the salary he earned was spent by building a wide range of laboratory and electrical equipment .
Edison was very happy to learn something and read books there. Of those studied, Edison applying these lessons in a way to experiment in his laboratory . Edison lived in the laboratory , only sleep 4 hours a day , and eating of food brought by his assistant to his laboratory . Edison conducted experiments and experiments continuously until its findings be perfect . Perhaps a suitable word to describe the brilliance of Edison is : " Genius is 99 % perspiration "
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