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Thomas Edison Great Minds Comes Great Possibilities My name is Thomas Edison and I was born on February 11, 1847, Ohio, the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison, my parents. When I was seven my family moved to Port Huron, Michigan and I lived there until I struck out on my own at the age of sixteen. I had very little formal education as a child attending school only for a few months. My mother taught me reading, writing, and arithmetic, but I was always very curious about life and taught myself much by reading on my own. My belief in self-improvement remained throughout my whole life. My life’s dream is to be a great inventor and be part of history. All my success came to me one night somewhere late September 1870. It was such a perfect day. Sun shining, birds whistling, kids playing, and the air smelled so fresh and so clean. It all started at my friend’s house, Johnny Lamington, who I have known all my life. He said, “how come we can never make good money?” So we were thinking for a while until he had said, “Finally, I should of thought about this a long time ago, why don’t we make a business that can deliver your mail less than 24 hours?” That’s absolutely the very first time I th