Thomas Edison
1 the first job.For the next five years he went around the count
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2 job.At last Edison went to New York.He had
3 money.He could not buy enough food to eat.He has no place to sleep .
For many days Edison
4 work.He was hungry.At last he found work fixing machines.He could mend
the old machines.He also
5 ne
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w ones.The head man liked Edison's new machines.He was going to give
Edison $40,000 for them.Edison would now have money to do
6 he wanted.
Thomas Edison was then 23.He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey.He had many people
7 him.But he worked more than
8 of them.He rested very little.Soon he was making more than 40 new things
9 .
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone.But it could carry voices only a little way.Edison
wanted to make
10 telephone.He soon made one.It could carry voices a long way.