Exposed to air, the phosphorus spontaneously ignited, and a fire broke out. Edison was allowed to keep a chemistry set onboard the train so he could conduct experiments during the layover, until one day when the train lurched and a bottle of yellow phosphorus immersed in water fell to the floor and broke.
His daily trip to Detroit provided him with a layover during which he would visit the city’s libraries to read scientific books and periodicals. He transported produce, buying in Detroit and from farmers along the way, and employed another boy to sell fruits and vegetables in Port Huron. He started a newspaper and sold it to passengers and at stations between the two cities. At age 13 he was employed by the Grand Trunk Railroad as a newsboy and concessionaire on the trains that ran from Port Huron to Detroit. The young Edison displayed a remarkable inclination for entrepreneurship. Like many scientifically-minded boys of his era, Edison took a special interest in chemistry and assembled a home laboratory where he collected chemicals and experimented with them. Edison was encouraged to read and developed a strong interest in reading, in subjects ranging from Western history to general science. His education came in large part at home where his mother taught and his father kept a library. His family moved from Ohio to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1854.Īs a boy, Edison attended school only briefly. Because his siblings were more than 15 years older, Edison was the only child in the home and received the benefit of both parents’ dutiful attention. Edison was the youngest of seven children, only four of whom lived past their childhoods. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and taught young Edison at home. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Rubber and the Edison Botanic Research Corporation.Light Bulb Filaments and Electrical Lighting.With more than 1,000 patents and inventions that inspired people throughout the nation, Edison was an able experimenter who took a keen interest in chemistry at a young age, and chemical applications were a central theme in many of his inventions, including the carbon filaments used in light bulbs, development of the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery, and research into domestic sources of rubber. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison became a household name for his inventions that ushered in a new era of modernity with light and sound in every home. Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, on Jat the Menlo Park Laboratory at The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, on September 20, 2014, and at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, New Jersey, on October 24, 2015.
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