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= **Thomas Alva Edison had a learning disability, but even though he was disabled he overcame it and was the one to create the first light bulb.Thomas was born on february 11, 1897 (Ellen M.Dolan 15). Thomas was the only one of his family to be born in the United States and when he was born he was weak and had an extremely big head. He was the yougest one out of all his siblings. In his early years Thomas was a very curios kid in fact he even burned down his father's farm due to curiosity (Ellen M.Dolan 13-15). Thomas had much too little education when he was young, in fact he only attended school for only a couple of months and learned how to read, write and arithmetic by his mother. Even though Thomas had a learning disability he taught him self much more reading on his own(Mary Bellis). Around the age of 9 Thomas got an elementary science book from his mother and he was so excited that he tried every single experiment there was and by the time he was ten he spent almost all of his money on chemicals and created his own leboratory at his basement (Neatorama). A couple of years later Thomas Edison started working at a railway selling newspaper and candy, later on Edison worked as a telegraph operator and used to have to travel to many places "Edison arrives in New York City and eventually gets job at Laws' Gold Indicator Co. after fixing the company's stock ticker. Edison receives patent in June for his first invention, an electric vote recorder." (Timeline for inveting entertainment)** Edison lived his whole life trying, failing but also succeeding with great inventions. Thomas got married around 1871 to his 16 year old employee Mary Stilwell. Mary gave birth to three children but after only 2 years Mary passed away and Edison got remarried. In 1878 Thomas was working on trying to figure out a way to improve the way the lectric light bulb worked. First he used a filament made from burnt sewing thread, and afterwards he tried using bamboo filaments and by the end of 1880 he had created a 16 watt bulb that lasted about 1,500 hours. As the years passed hundrens and hundreds of towns all over the world had Edison power stations. Although Thomas Alva Edison had a learning disability and was almost fully deaf he was a success and overcame his illness with great creations that are usefull until today. =