Thomas Edison never went to school.
All education he ever got was given to him by his mother. At the age of twelve
he was put to work on a railway. Having a great deal to do with newspapers, he
managed to pick up the art of printing, and he printed a newspaper of his own
“The Weekly Herald” in a luggage van. One day he rescued a station-master’s
child which was nearly run over by a train.
The station-master, out of
gratitude, taught him how to work the telegraph which had been introduced just
then. Young Edison soon acquired great skill at the telegraph and was employed
as a telegraphist. When only twenty, Edison
invented a new telegraph which was extremely useful and several telegraph
companies asked him to invent other things for them
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