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智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 新GRE写作名人素材整理之爱迪生-智课教育旗下智课教 育 新GRE写作名人素材整理，本文就爱迪生有关的新GRE写作名人素 材做介绍，希望可以供考生参考，更好地准备GRE考试，并最终取得理 想的考生成绩。 本文为大家搜集的关于爱迪生的名人素材，希望能够帮助大家更好 地备考新GRE写作，获得新GRE写作高分。 Edison, Thomas (Alva) 1847 -- 1931 Inventor. Born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. His father was a jack-of-all-trades, his mother a former teacher. Edison spent three months in school, then was taught at home by his mother. At the age of 12 he sold fruit, candy, and papers on the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 1862, using his small handpress in a baggage car, he wrote and printed the Grand Trunk Herald, which was circulated to 400 railroad employees. That year he became a telegraph operator, taught by the father of a child whose life Edison had saved. Exempt from military service because of deafness, he was a tramp telegrapher until he joined Western Union Telegraph Company in Boston in 1868. Probably Edisons first invention was an automatic telegraph repeater (circa 1864). His first patent was for an electric vote recorder. In 1869, as a partner in a New York electrical firm, he perfected the stock ticker and sold it. This money, in addition to that from his share of the partnership, provided funds for his own factory in Newark, N.J. Edison hired technicians to collaborate on inventions; he wanted an invention factory. As many as 80 earnest men, including chemists, physicists, and mathematicians, were on his staff. Invention to order became very profitable. From 1870 to 1875, Edison invented many telegraphic improvements: transmitters; receivers; the duplex, quadruplex, and sextuplex systems; and automatic printers and tape. He worked with Christopher Sholes, father of the typewriter, in 1871 to improve the typing machine. Edison claimed he made 12 typewriters at Newark about 1870. The Remington Company bought his interests. In 1876 Edisons carbon telegraph transmitter for Western Union ma