Thomas Alva Edison
My Diary
October 1855 Tuesday
My teacher well me to dump to learn.That I heard well but other things I don't hear right.I felt emberessed. I don't even like this teacher.She is mean! It's also not my fault because I had scarlet fever.
November 1857 Wendsday
I got a job selling news papers.At a train.I am so happy I have a job.Now I can own my own money.
November 1857 Saturday
I also got premission to set up a laboratory in the train. Yessssssssssss!!!!!!
November 1857 Friday
The conductor kicked me out of the train.I am angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 1857 Friday
I saved a kid from being run over by a errant train. The father of kid said he will show me how to operate a telegraph.Yess a better job!
December 1862 Wensday
I have been working at a telegraph company."Booyaah!"Finally a real job.
October 1866 Tuesday
I moved to Kentucky,Louisville to work at the Associated Press."Boomshakalaka"A better Job.Yess!
May 1870 Monday
I improved the stock ticker.And the stock telegraph company they payed me $40,000. I should do this more often.
June 1872 Friday
I sent to build a small laboratory in Newark,New Jersey.So I can create better things.
January 1875 Saturday
I improved the stock ticker more and I made a quadruplex telegraph that is capable to transmitting two signals from two different directions.And Jay Gould snatched the invention from Western Union.But Jay Gould payed me $100,000. This is a good job.
December 1877 Sunday
I invented the phonograph and it came to world fame.It records sound.
July 1880 Thursday
I invented the light bulb but it was hard because I broke a lot of glass and other things and I also failed a lot.But I didn't give up I tried and tried to make the invention real and that's one of my best inventions yet.
July 1880 Monday
I started developing a light bulb company. I am building a laboratory in West Orange New Jersey.
May 1950 Sunday
My grandpa died in 1931 at age 84.
By Thomas Alva Edison and his grandson