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38 Arrow-Puffin-3_Semester-1 Englishhis age have. I will teach him myself. He will not attend school.%u201d And she started teaching the boy at home.And that boy grew up to be the great Thomas Alva Edison. Edison went to school only three months of his life. His mother made learning so enjoyable. She always told him that it was more important to think than simply remember facts. She read out the best books she could find. When Edison was just about nine years old, he could read difficult books very quickly.His reading habits helped him to develop interest in science. At the age of ten, he set up a small laboratory in his room. He spent most of his time doing experiments in the laboratory. He sold newspapers and candies on trains to earn money for his experiments.When Thomas was about 14 years old, he saved the life of a child who was the son of a railway officer. The child%u2019s father was very thankful to Thomas. He taught Thomas how to use a telegraph to send and receive messages. Soon he learnt how to operate the telegraph.Edison invented many useful things %u2013 the phonograph, the world%u2019s first machine for recording sounds, the motion picture camera, the first workable telephone and the automatic telegraph. But he is best known for inventing the electric bulb. The invention of the bulb marked a new era in human progress. Edison worked on it for a long time and there were many failures. After thirteen months, his hard labour bore fruit.Can you believe that one man could have more than one hundred inventions to his name? Edison was indeed a genius for he has changed the very life of mankind. He was a man who never stepped back because of failures. He is rightly called the inventor of inventors.What did Edison%u2019s mother always tell him?What happened after Edison%u2019s thirteen months of hard labour?