Did you know ?????????????????????/ Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was born with an overly large head and had developmental disabilities which slowed his early motor and language skills. Doctors claimed he would be “an invalid”. Edison’s school diagnosed him as “mentally ill” and “unteachable”because he could not complete his academic work. His mother Nancy Edison, a former teacher, removed her son from school and home-schooled him. She struggled to find methods to accommodate for Edison’s developmental disabilities and dyslexia, and eventually found that Edison had to see and test things for himself. Edison went on to become one of the mostrecognized inventors of all the time. He patented over a thousand inventions; among his most famous are: the phonograph (1877), the electric light bulb (1879), the dictating machine, and the motion picture (1896). In 1882 he also designed the first hydroelectric plant in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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