Thomas Edison: Visionary, Inventor, or Villain?

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Edison was a voracious self-learner, reading everything that he could get his hands on.

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Thomas Edison: Visionary, Inventor, or Villain?

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BY DONOVAN ALEXANDER

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For people in the 19th century, Thomas Alva Edison was a wizard.

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His "inventiveness" was an embodiment of Arthur C. Clarke's famous and often overused quote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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Some of his 1000+ inventions have gone on to shape our lives. However, he is also not the saint of science that some of our school teachers taught in grade school.

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Dr. Jenna Crowe-Riddell

The youngest of seven children, Thomas Alva Edison, was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio to Samuel and Nancy Edison.

Edison was a voracious self-learner, reading everything that he could get his hands on.

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By his teenage years, the young inventor had built a chemistry lab in his mother's basement, an endeavor that ended explosively.

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After starting a potentially destructive fire in one of his experiments, Edison turned away from inventing for the sake of invention.

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