Bilbilesha Brozi

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It is known that early in his career he enrolled in a chemistry course at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art to support his work on a new telegraphy system with Charles Batchelor.

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Modern-day historians and medical professionals have suggested he may have had ADHD.

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As he got older, Edison believed his hearing loss allowed him to avoid distraction and concentrate more easily on his work.

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Much harder and more inspiring as he was a musician.

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Heard Beethoven did that as well.

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It is alleged that Edison would listen to a music player or piano by clamping his teeth into the wood to absorb the sound waves into his skull.

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He was completely deaf in one ear and barely hearing in the other.

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He subsequently concocted elaborate fictitious stories about the cause of his deafness.

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The cause of his deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle-ear infections.

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Edison developed hearing problems at the age of 12.

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As a child, he became fascinated with technology and spent hours working on experiments at home.

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However, one biographer described him as a very curious child who learned most things by reading on his own.

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He attended school for only a few months.

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Edison was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother, a former school teacher.

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Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854.

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And in 1880, Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Electric Light Company began marketing its new product.

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This discovery marked the beginning of commerically manufactured light bulbs.

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Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours.

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By Nov 4, 1879, he filed another U.S. patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires."

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