Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. Amazingly, during his childhood, he received only three months of schooling. When he was 12 years old, he got a job selling newspapers in Port Huron, Michigan. During his spare time as a paperboy, he would experiment with the printing press and other appliances. During this time, he learned how to operate a newspaper printing press, and in 1862, he published his own weekly paper.In a strange twist of fate, Edison saved an officials child, and was rewarded by being taught telegraphy. Edison showed his engineering genius with telegraphy when he designed a telegraphic repeating instrument, which could automatically transport a message over a second line. This invention would later on make Edison very rich.

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