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and he came home crying. From that time his mother taught him at home
and he read science books by himself. He got a job sending telegraph
messages. Then he started inventing things.
At the age of 12 he had a job selling newspapers. He made money in a
clever but simple way. He checked the news stories first. When the news was
interesting he took a lot of papers; when it was boring he took only few.
In 1877 he made a «phonograph» — the first ever sound recorder. The
following year he invented the light bulb. In 1882 New York was the first
city in the world with electric lights. In 1889 he made a «kinetoscope». He
also made films for his new machine. In 1903 he made the world's longest
film (It was ten minutes long!). After more than one thousand inventions,
Edison died at the age of eighty-four. In his honor they switched off the
lights all over America.
(Adopted from
www.alleng.ru
)
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