Thomas Alva Edison

Each year over a million people visit this historic building in Greenfield village near Dearborn, Michigan, it’s the manual park laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison

Americans most famous inventor. Many years ago in this laboratory  the electric light bulb was developed by Thomas Edison. The electric light bulb was just one of a thousands of patterns which came of the rich imagination of this man, Thomas Alva Edison.

What were his beginnings? what kind of boy was he?

He was born in this small house in the town of  Milan,  Ohio, in the year 1847. By the time he was six years old the boy Edison, called Al, was already showing signs of being different from other boys. He spent  a lot of time just watching things, daydreaming, the neighbours said.