1. Thomas Edison
... of the benefits of a formal education in contemporary mathematics, physics, engineering etc.... In any case, at ... in a noisy world. Interestingly, the one thing that he missed most - after becoming 80 % deaf in his right ear and totally deaf in his left ear - was the sound of singing birds. He loved the creatures so much, he once amassed an aviary of over 5,000 of them. In 1860, Tom's career of ... the basics of the fascinating new art of telegraphy, he obtained a job as a replacement for one of the thousands of "brass pounders" (telegraph operators) who had gone off to serve in the Ci...
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