Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Edison was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio: a bustling port that, next to Odessa, Russia, was then the largest wheat shipping center in the world. Later, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Not long after young Thomas learned to talk, he began pleading with just about everyone he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. If someone said they didn't know, he would stare into their …showed first 75 words of 1412 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1412 total…cotton sewing thread that has been burned to an ash. The light bulb burned for two days. The electric light took the greatest amount of time and required the most complicated experiments of all his experiments. At the laboratory at Menlo Park, scientists could turn on and off different lights. This was something very new for the world. His bulbs were first installed on the steamship "Columbia" and later in a New York City factory.