thomas edison the man who invented the
electric
light bulb
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one day i was poor the next
i was rich i brought light to cities
and invented lots of new things
how did i do it i worked hard
but i also had good luck
i met the right people at the right time
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i was born in the united states
i went to school for only three months
because my teacher thought that i
caused trouble in the classroom
in fact i spoke in a loud voice
because i couldn't hear very well
when i left school i was only seven
years
old my mother became my teacher
at home my parents had seven
children and i was the youngest
we didn't have much money so when i was
12 years old
all my brothers and sisters worked
i decided to work too i got a job
on the railways and i sold food and
drinks
on trains one day i was at mount
clemons station when i saw a little boy
on the railway
there was a train coming and i ran to
save him
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the boy was the station master's
three-year-old son
he wanted to thank me for saving his son
and taught me how to use the telegraph
i could get a better job now
from 1863 to 1867
i worked as a telegraph operator
i liked machines and i sometimes did
experiments
when i was 19 i had a job at the western
union company
in louisville one day
i was trying an experiment when i
spilled
acid in the office and lost my job
i moved to boston and invented a machine
to record votes no one was interested in
it
so when i was 22 years old i decided to
go to new york to make a new start
i knew one person in new york so i went
to see him
i haven't got a job and i need some
money
could i borrow some from you i asked
he was surprised i can only
lend you a dollar he said
i took the dollar and promised to give
it back
this dollar changed my life
i was hungry and weak so i used the
dollar to buy a meal
i felt much stronger after my meal and i
went
out to look for a job i talked to a few
people
one of them was franklin pope
he worked for the gold indicator company
and he
showed me the company's building i
stayed in the battery room that night
the next day i studied the company's
machines
the third day was my lucky day
there was a machine that sent important
information
to the gold exchange suddenly
it stopped working
the people in the company didn't know
what to do
but i knew what to do i repaired the
machine
dr samuel laws from the gold exchange
heard of my work he offered to pay me
three hundred dollars a month to repair
their machines
i was able to pay the dollar back
soon the president of the gold and stock
telegraph company
also heard of my work can you repair
the machines in our company he asked me
three thousand dollars or five thousand
dollars a year
was good pay for the job but he
offered me forty thousand dollars
i was lucky once again
this was the start of my career as a
businessman
and inventor i moved to new jersey
and i opened several telegraph companies
with franklin pope in 1870
mary stillwell got a job in one of my
companies
we got married the next year and had
three
children i was happy to have a family
but i didn't have much time to be at
home
i had a lot of ideas for new inventions
in 1876 i built a research
laboratory at menlo park
formed a team and invented the
phonograph
a machine to play music and many other
things
my most important invention came next
every day when the sun set everything
was
dark we had electricity
but we had no electric light
after a lot of experiments and hours of
hard work at the laboratory
we invented the electric light bulb
the round glass object that produces
light
in 1882 i helped to put
400 lights in the streets of manhattan
new york got a new name the city that
never
sleeps i brought light to homes
hospitals offices factories
and schools it was the beginning of the
24
7 lifestyle 24 hours of light
seven days a week then
a sad day arrived in my life in 1885
my wife became ill and died
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but two years later i got married to
meena miller
and had three children
at work it was a time of success
i started more companies and invented
more things
i got one patent every 10 days
there were 1093 in total
then hard times came again in 1913
a big fire destroyed 13 of our buildings
the next year the first world war
started in europe
the government asked me to work on
inventions to find
guns and submarines i couldn't work on
my
inventions anymore
during my life i started a lot of
companies
and invented many things one day
i was asked how did you do it
my answer was one percent inspiration
and 99 perspiration
hard work was the key
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托马斯·爱迪生 发明
电
灯泡的人
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有一天我很穷，后来
我很富有 我给城市带来了光
，发明了很多新
东西 我是怎么做到的
对的时间对的人
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我出生在美国
我只上学三个月
因为我的老师认为我
在课堂上造成了麻烦
实际上我大声说话
是因为我听不见 很好，
当我离开学校时，我只有七岁，
我妈妈在家里当了我的老师
我也决定工作 我在铁路上找到了一份工作
，我在火车上卖食物和
饮料
有一天我在
克莱蒙斯山站，当我看到
铁路上的一个小男孩时，
有一列火车来了，我跑去
救他
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这个男孩是站长
三岁的儿子
他要感谢我救了他的儿子
并教我如何使用电报
我现在可以
从 1863 年到 1867 年找到一份更好的工作
我做过电报员
我喜欢机器，有时
我在 19 岁时做实验 我有工作
有一天，在路易斯维尔的西联公司，
我正在做一个实验，结果我
在办公室洒了酸，丢了工作。
我搬到波士顿，发明了一
台记录选票的机器，没有人对它感兴趣，
所以当我 22 岁时，我 决定
去纽约重新开始
我在纽约认识一个人所以我
去看他
我没有工作我需要一些
钱我可以向你借一些我问
他很惊讶我只能
借给你一美元 他说
我拿了美元并答应把
它还给
我 这美元改变了我的生活
我又饿又弱 所以我用
美元买了一
顿饭 饭后我感觉好多了 我
出去寻找一个 我和几个人谈过工作
，其中一个是富兰克林
教皇 我在黄金指示器公司工作
，他带
我参观了公司的大楼第二天
晚上我住在电池室
我研究了公司的
机器第三天是我的幸运日
有一台机器
突然向黄金交易所发送重要信息
它停止工作
公司里的人不知道
该做什么，
但我知道该做什么 我修理了
机器
黄金交易所的 samuel law 博士
听说了我的工作，他提出每月付给我
300 美元来修理
他们的机器
我很快就可以还钱
了 黄金和股票电报公司的总裁
也听说了我的工作，你能修理
我们公司的机器吗？他问我
每年三千或五千美元
对这份工作来说是不错的报酬，但是 他
给了我四万美元
我又一次幸运了
这是我作为
商人
和发明家的职业生涯的开始 我搬到了新泽西州
并开了几家电报
公司 富兰克林·波普 1870 年
玛丽·斯蒂尔韦尔在我的一家公司找到了一份工作，
我们第二年结婚并生了
三个
孩子。我很高兴有一个家庭，
但我没有太多时间待在家里
1876 年的新发明 我在门洛帕克建立了一个研究
实验室
组建了一个团队并发明了
留声机
一个可以播放音乐和许多其他
东西的机器
我最重要的发明接下来就是
每天太阳落山时一切
都
黑了 我们有电
但我们没有 电灯
经过实验室的大量实验和数小时的
努力
我们发明了电灯泡
1882 年产生光的圆形玻璃物体 我帮助
在曼哈顿的街道上安装了 400 盏灯
纽约得到了一个新名称 这座城市
从不
睡觉，我为家庭
医院办公室工厂
和学校带来了光，这是
24
7 生活方式的开始每周 7 天 24 小时照明
然后悲伤的一天在 1885 年出现在我的生活中，
我的妻子 bec 我病死了
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但两年后我嫁给了
米娜米勒
并
在工作中生了三个孩子这是一个成功的时期
我创办了更多的公司并发明了
更多的东西
我每 10 天获得一项专利
当时总共有 1093 1913 年艰难时期再次来临
一场大火烧毁了我们的 13 座
建筑物 第二年第一次世界大战
在
欧洲爆发 政府要求我进行
发明以寻找
枪支和潜艇 我在我的一生中无法再进行
我的
发明了
开了很多
公司
，发明了很多东西 有一天
我被问到你是怎么做到
的