Celebrate Thomas Edison’s 165th Birthday With a Crash Course On His Life

Did you know thatThomas Edisongot his first job as a telegraphy hustler after saving the daughter of a station agent from an oncoming train ? Or that he did n’t forge the light bulb , but alternatively created the first commercially practicable version ?

Were he , by some remarkable feat of skill , still alive today , Thomas Edison would be enjoying his 165th birthday . And to celebrate , I suggest you take some time , three min to be exact , to brush up on his sprightliness and accomplishment . While he might not have been the country ’s superlative inventor , like Steve Jobs he had the business savvy to capitalize and take a great idea to the masses . Even if it unfortunately meantelectrocuting an elephantalong the way . ( Edison , not caper . ) [ YouTubeviaNeatorama ]

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