Thomas Alva Edison biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Thomas Alva Edison

Author Name:

Thomas Alva Edison

Born As:

Thomas Alva Edison

Other Names:

Thomas Alva Edison

Born:

11 Feb 1847

Died:

18 Oct 1931




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Inventor                          
                          
Mother Nancy Matthews Elliott
Father Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr, seven children.
First wife Mary Stilwell,  died 1884,  three children, Marion Estelle, Thomas Alva and William Leslie.
Second wife Mina Miller, three children, Madeleine,
Charles, and Theodore.
                          
                          
One of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention.
Patented more than 1,000 inventions.
Thomas had three months of formal schooling, then his mother home schooled Thomas.