One day the Edisons couldn’t find six-year-old Al, as his family called him. They were visiting Al’s older sister and her husband on their farm. It was just outside of Milan, Ohio. The year was 1853.
Suddenly Al’s uncle had an idea. He ran out to the barn and there he found Al sitting on a pile of straw. He was trying to hatch a goose egg. He had seen a hen sitting on her eggs when some baby chicks came out. Al wanted to make a baby goose come out of the egg.
The Edisons weren’t surprised. They had three other children, but their youngest, Al, was the most curious. He would be that way all of his long life.
The world was very different when Thomas Alva Edison was a child—no electric light to see by, no recorded music to listen to, no movies to watch. It was Edison who made all of these possible and much more, changing our lives forever. Edison firmly believed in inventions, ones that could make everyday life easier and more comfortable. That is exactly what he accomplished.
Thomas Alva Edison was, perhaps, the greatest inventor of his time.
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