... interest in world history and English literature. Years later, his love of Shakespeare lead him to briefly consider becoming an actor. However, his relatively high pitched voice and extreme shyness before every audience except those whom he was trying to influence in helping him finance an invention dissuaded him from serious pursuit of the idea. As time progressed, Tom's parents tried to ... frequencies over telegraph wires, producing horn-like simulations of the human voice and, ultimately, crude images (the first internet?) via an instrument called the harmonic telegraph. This fascina...

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... subjects, she also read to him a lot and taught him some English literature, including things from Shakespeare, Dickens and others. When he turned twelve he started a job at the Grand Trunk Railroad. Here he sold many things such as newspapers, candy, apples, and various other things. This was about the time he noticed his hearing was going downhill. Probably his hearing disability was cause ... earnings on electrical instruments and labs; he would take the instruments apart and put them back together. This was the very beginning of Thomas Alva Edison, soon to be known as one of the gre...

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