1862 One day in August, Edison saved a boy on the train track. The boy's father was Mackenzie, the stationmaster of this railway station. He was very grateful for this and taught Edison the telegraph technology. Under the guidance of Mackenzie, Edison learned the telegraph technology and sent his first telegram.

1863, Edison was introduced by Mackenzie as a telecom operator in Stratford Hub Station, but he was soon dismissed. ?

During the period from 1864 to 1867, Edison worked as a telegraph operator in the United States and lived an insecure vagrant life. During this period, Edison changed ten workplaces, was fired five times, and resigned five times by himself, and traveled all over Stratford, Adrian, fort wayne, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Nashville, Tennessee and Memphis.

2. The first patent

1at the end of 868, Edison came to Boston as a telegraph operator. In the same year, he obtained the first invention patent, which is a device for automatically recording votes. Edison thought that this device would speed up the work of Congress and be popular, but a member of Congress told him that sometimes voting was slow because of political needs, so Edison decided not to create inventions that people no longer needed. ?

Step 3 find the direction

1869 In the late autumn, Edison came to new york alone to look for a job, but when he was looking for a job in a company, it happened that a telegraph machine there broke down. Edison quickly repaired the telegraph and was praised by the general manager. As a result, he became the chief telegraph technician, with a stable working environment and salary, which provided good conditions for his future inventions.

In June+10 of the same year, Edison and Franklin Pope jointly founded the "Pop-Edison" company, which specializes in scientific instruments for electrical engineering and invented the ordinary printing machine.

4. The first bucket of gold

1870, Edison sold the patent right of general printing machine to a company on wall street, and asked the manager to make a price himself. I wanted to charge thousands of dollars, but the manager actually gave Edison 40 thousand dollars. After Edison got $40,000, he built a factory in Ward Street, Wacker, New Jersey, specializing in manufacturing all kinds of motors. ?

From 65438 to 0873, Edison devoted himself to the research of synchronous transmitter.

1874 65438+February, the research of synchronous transmitter is coming to an end. Western Union promised to pay Edison $5,000, bid $25,000 for his patent, and pay him $233 a day for using the equipment. However, Western Union failed to keep its promise, and finally Jay Gould bought the patent of synchronous transmitter for $30,000, which made Edison survive. ?

1At the end of 875, Edison was about to have his second child. He felt that the space at home was too narrow, and the narrow and gloomy streets and noisy environment of Newark factory also affected the working mood of researchers. Edison finally decided to move. ?

1876 At the beginning of the year, Edison's family moved to Monroe Park in New Jersey, where he built a laboratory. ?

5. Innocent and curious to hatch chickens

Once, when it was time for dinner, Edison still didn't come back. My parents are worried and look around. It was not until the evening that I found him in the hut next to the yard. When his father saw him lying motionless in a haystack full of eggs, he asked Edison what he was doing. Little Edison replied that he was incubating chickens. It turned out that he was surprised to see that hens could hatch chicks, and he always wanted to try it himself.

At that time, his father pulled him up with anger and laughter and told others that chickens could not be hatched. On the way home, he asked inexplicably, "Why can hens hatch chicks and I can't?" ?

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