[00:04.99]THe MAN WHO NEVER GAVVE UP
[00:22.65]Thomas ALVA Edison was a great American inventor.
[00:51.10]When th was a child he was always asking questions and trying out new ideas.
[01:30.07]No matter bow hard it was, he never up .
[03:11.35]Young Tom was in school for only three months.
[03:17.41]His teacher didn't understand why this new pupil had so many strange questions.
[03:26.47]Most of the questions had nothing to do with his lessons.
[03:33.55]The teacher didn't want to teach Tom any more.
[03:39.61]He asked Tom's mother to take the boy home.
[03:56.07]Young Tom was in school for only three months.
[04:09.42]His teacher didn't understand why this new pupil had so many strange questions.
[04:30.65]Most of the questions had nothing to do with his lessons.
[04:50.93]The teacher didn't want to teach Tom any more.
[05:00.96]He asked Tom's mother to take the boy home.
[05:56.41]The teacher didn't want to teach Tom any more.
[06:07.36]He asked Tom's mother to take the boy home.
[06:29.51]Tom's mother taught him to read and write, and she found him to be a very good pupil.
[06:38.76]He learnt very fast and became very interested in science.
[06:45.71]When he was only ten,he built a chemistry lab for himself.
[06:59.87]Tom's mother taught him to read and write,and she found him to be a very good pupil.
[07:15.51]He learnt very fast and became very interested in science.
[07:32.75]When he was only ten,he built a chemistry lab for himself.
[08:26.51]At the age of 12,he started writing his own newspaper.
[08:33.07]He printed it and sold copies on the trains.
[08:38.64]It was the first newspaper sold on trains in America.
[08:47.49]At the age of 12, he started writing his own newspaper.
[09:15.44]It was the first newspaper sold on trains in America.
[09:46.50]He printed it and sold copies on the trains.
[10:13.88]One day in August 1862,Edison saw a little boy playing on the railway tracks at a station.
[10:26.63]A train was coming near quickly,and the boy was too frightened to move.
[11:57.87]Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety,
[12:19.84]The boy's father was so thankful that he taught Edison how to send messages by telegraph.
[12:30.29]Edison soon became very good at it and later left home to work in different cities.
[12:40.56]This gave him a new start in life. At that time, he was only 16.
[13:25.93]This gave him a new start in life. At that time, he was only 16.
[15:41.09]When he was 22, he moved to New York to be an inventor.
[15:47.57]With the money he made from some of his earlier inventions,
[15:54.23]Thomas Edison opened up his own lab in New Jersey.
[16:00.89]There he worked most of his lifetime.
[16:05.93]During his lifetime, he had 1,093 inventions.
[16:14.29]He never gave up.He would keep trying out different ideas until he invented what he wanted.
[16:24.16]When he was 22, he moved to New York to be an inventor.
[16:40.62]With the money he made from some of his earlier inventions,
[17:18.89]There he worked most of his lifetime.
[17:30.12]During his lifetime, he had 1,093 inventions.
[17:45.46]He never gave up.
[17:52.30]He would keep trying out different ideas until he invented what he wanted.
[18:13.17]Thomas Edison thought that no matter how difficult something seemed,
[18:20.02]he could find the answer,
[18:47.08]He said that he thought more of a person who has one idea and makes it work,
[18:55.62]than of a person who has a thousand ideas but doesn't do anything about them |