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Thomas Edison

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Thomas Edison

September 23, 202655:28
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Thomas Edison was one of history’s greatest inventors, a man who gave the world not only electric light but other landmark innovations in sound recording and moving pictures. He accumulated more patents in his lifetime than anyone had before, and filled over 4,000 notebooks with his work. But how did this ordinary, home-schooled boy from the American mid-West overcome ill-health and hearing loss to change the world? And was he really a lone genius, or did he rely on the work of others? This is…