Funny story about 'witch' Edison

On Sunday morning on October 18, 1931, Thomas Edison left the ceiling just three days before the 52nd birthday of the first electric bulb. Electric lights across the United States are turned off for a minute to commemorate the great man, the 'friend of humanity' has given people a precious light, a 'second sun'.

In remembrance of him, many people still remember the funny stories of this "stupid" scientist .

. Returning to Edison's childhood, the appearance of a great scientist formed right away from the somewhat funny stories of the boy in the western United States.

The questions why endless

Edison is the youngest child in a family of 7 siblings. His father, Samuel Edison was a Dutch, his mother Nancy was a Scottish primary teacher. From an early age, Edison proved to be a curious, curious, and always curious "why" boy and chased the answer to the end. Edison's mother Nancy understood her son's mentality very well and caught a glimpse of a science prodigy. In front of her strange questions, Nancy often perseveres in elaborately explaining and stimulating the curiosity of her child.

Once, Edison asked his father, 'Daddy, why is there wind?' . Dad answered: 'Edison, I don't understand it!'. Edison asked, 'Why don't you understand?' . Dad said, 'Please try to ask your mother'. So Edison went to his mother and asked. After that, Nancy blamed her husband: 'You can't always tell me he doesn't know anything. That's holding back our child's curiosity! '.

Not only curious, curious, but also have to ask, Mr. Edison also likes to try and do it himself. One day, it was time to eat but Edison still didn't go home. Nancy's mother was very worried, all running away and looking everywhere but still not seeing. At night, she was amazed to find Edison in a thatched hut. The boy lay on his stomach on a pile of warmer grass, his hair was messy, and eggs were under his belly. He kept lying down, his face full of attentiveness. Surprised Nancy: 'Edison! What are you doing? ' Edison replied, "I am hatching eggs for chickens to hatch into children." The mother laughed. So Edison saw his mother chickens hatching eggs into chickens, so he was curious to try to see if he could hatch chickens!

Portrait of Thomas Edison's scholar.

At the age of 7, Edison was sent by his parents to the only school in the area. Called a school, but only one class of 40 students grew up. The teacher teaches students at different levels. Edison was seated next to him, which was the place for the poorest students. While studying, Edison did not pay attention to answering the teacher's question but often asked many tough questions with the teacher. Therefore, he often wears books and is laughed at by friends.

One day, when the inspector checked the classroom, Edison's teacher pointed to the boy and said: 'This student is crazy, not worth studying longer.' Edison was very angry with the two crazy words and brought the story back to his mother. After clarifying the industry, Nancy was extremely angry, leading Edison to the teacher and proclaiming: 'Did you tell my son crazy? Listen, his mind is more than you. I will keep it at home and teach it so he will see what it will be like in the future! ' . Since then, Edison did not go to school anymore but stayed home with his mother. Edison became acquainted with Shakespeare's Greek, Roman, and Bible History . But in particular, Edison showed great interest in science. You can tell clearly the inventions, experiments and biographies of the great scientists like Newton, Galileo . Not only taught, Edison was also trained by his mother in morality. The boy was told by his mother to live honestly, upright, confident and diligent, to have patriotism and love for humanity.

Wanderer scientist and speedy marriage proposal

Edison's father Samuel worked as a roof tile merchant, so as a child, he was often exposed to scientific tools. Once, after witnessing his father using a balloon to do a flying experiment, Edison was extremely excited. With a firm belief that if the human belly is also filled with air-like air, one can fly up, Edison has diligently made some kinds of chemicals and told his father's hired worker Max to try. to drink. After taking Edison's medicine, Max almost fainted. But Edison still insisted: failing to fly is his failure, not his!

At 12, Edison worked as a newspaper salesman and sold candies on trains. With a never-ending passion for science, he set himself up for a small chemical laboratory right on top of an empty compartment. Day by day, while selling newspapers, Edison himself researched science. Once, while doing the experiment, due to being careful, Edison burned the train. As a result, he was slapped by a train ticket operator for a tinnitus and kicked off the train, and banned from traveling to the railroad. This caused Edison's hearing ability to deteriorate gradually. But luckily, being deaf to Edison had trouble communicating but in return he was able to concentrate on his studies without being bothered.

Edison's love story also has many interesting points. At 24, Edison was the owner of a fairly famous enterprise. As the work steadily stabilized, the intention to build a family came to mind and the first young man noticed that the secretary Mary worked in the company. One day, Edison came in front of the gentle, delicate Mary and said: 'Miss, I don't want to waste time saying useless sentences. I asked her a very brief and clear question: Do you please be my wife? ' Completely shocked and surprised, the girl did not believe her ears. 'What do you mean, you take my word. I ask you to think for five minutes'. Edison repeated his "fast" proposal with a serious expression. "Five minutes? Is it too long! Yes, I accept it." Mary mumbled, blushing. Edison's wedding and Mary was soon followed by two children, and after Mary died, he married another 19-year-old wife named Mina, who had three children together. Managing Edison's company and becoming governor of New Jersey, Edison died at the age of 84, the last sentence he said his wife was: 'Out there is beautiful'.

Not much of Edison's story since the century. Because simply, his life is the most authentic slice of science, his inventions will shed many centuries later. During his devoted dedication, Edison received the first invention after 1907, an unprecedented record in the scientific world. He also read more than 10,000 books and every day he can read all 3 books. Transcendent memory and tireless creative mind made his name a great key that opened the 20th century to mankind. Because of his miraculous inventions, a newspaper in the US at that time called Edison as a "wizard in Menlo Park" (Menlo Park is the name of his laboratory).