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Thomas Edison was a little boy without a place in public school. Mr. Edison's teacher, Reverend Engle, was known to call him "addled" because his mind wandered so much. After three long months he was out. Luckily for Thomas, his mother home schooled him, allowing him more freedom than he would ever find in a classroom. Most of that knowledge came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy. After his death in 1931, a bitter assistant, Nikola Tesla had only this comment to criticize Edison: "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene" and that, "His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense." Thomas Edison was a narrowly educated man who successfully competed with those more thoroughly educated. At his death, Mr. Edison had over 1500 patents here in the United States and around the world. His most well known inventions were the phonograph, and the electric light bulb.                     |
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