He hired some assistants and worked around the clock trying out new ideas.Īn image shows Edison with his assistants at his laboratory. TIM: Edison used the money to set up his own laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he could spend his time developing new technologies. In 1874, the Western Union company paid him 10,000 dollars for a new telegraph that could handle four separate signals at the same time.Īn image shows a Western Union executive presenting Edison with a 10,000 dollar check. TIM: Exactly! Anyway, many of Edison's early inventions were improvements to the telegraph. STEAM GUY: Dit-dit-dit, dah-dah-dah, dit-dit. TIM: But the telegraph couldn't transmit voices instead, people communicated with a system of electrical pulses. People used it to send and receive messages over long distances. TIM: Oh, the telegraph was sort of like a primitive telephone or radio. TIM: Later, as a teenager, Edison left home to become a telegraph operator. Images show Edison holding the items he sold on trains. Port Huron was a big railroad town, and young Edison sold fruits, vegetables, candy, and newspapers to train passengers. TIM: By the time he was 12, Edison had devoured most of the books in his local library, and even started his own business. Side by side images show a frustrated teacher trying to teach Edison in class, and Edison's mom smiling and watching him read a book. It frustrated his teachers, so his mom decided to pull him out of school and teach him at home. TIM: Well, he was kind of hyperactive, and he asked a lot of questions. TIM: He wasn't a star student in fact, he had only 12 weeks of formal schooling. Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan.Ī U.S. Steam Guy shows Tim fishing photo of him fishing with Thomas Edison. STEAM GUY: Dit-dit-dit, dah-dah-dah, dit-dit-dit.Ī flap opens up on top of the robot's head and it whistles like a train as steam comes out of it. Moby walks over to the robot and hugs it, patting it on the shoulder. Moby points straight ahead at Steam Guy in knight's armor. And here's his phonograph, the very first record player. TIM: See? Look: Here's a design for the incandescent light bulb. Tim walks over to a table that has an incandescent light bulb and a phonograph on it. Tim and Moby live in Thomas Edison's laboratory. From, Katelin (Plymouth, Ohio). Actually, Moby and I are visiting Thomas Edison's laboratory today. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, Can you do a movie about Thomas Edison? I think it would be very interesting. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby.
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