داستان انگلیسی در باره توماس ادیسون

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I was born in the United States. I went to school for only three months because my teacher thought that I caused trouble in the classroom. In fact, I spoke in a loud voice because I couldn’t hear very well. When I left school, I was only 7 years old. My mother became my teacher at home.

My parents had seven children and I was the youngest. We didn’t have much money, so when I was 12 years old, all my brothers and sisters worked. I decided to work too. I got a job on the railways and I sold food and drinks on trains. One day, I was at Mount Clemens station when I saw a little boy on the railway. There was a train coming and I ran to safe him.

The boy was the stationmaster’s 3-years-old son. He wanted to thank me for saving his son and taught me how to use the telegraph. I could get a better job now! From 1863 to 1867, I worded as telegraph operator. I liked machines and I sometimes did experiments. When I was 19, I had a job at the Western Union company in Louisville. One day, I was trying an experiment when I spilt acid in the office and lost my job.

I moved to Boston and invented a machine to record votes. No one was interested in it, so when I was 22 years old, I decided to go to New York to make a new start. I knew one person in New York so I went to see him. ‘I haven’t got a job and I need some money. Could I borrow some from you?’ I asked. He was surprised. ‘I can only lend you a dollar,’ he said. I took the dollar and promised to give it back.

This dollar changed my life. I was hungry and weak, so I used the dollar to buy a meal. I felt much stronger after my meal and I went out to look for a job.  I talked to a few people. One of them was Franklin Pope. He worked for the Gold Indicator company and he showed me the company’s building.

I stayed in the battery room in that night. The next day, I studied the company’s machines. The third day was my lucky day. There was a machine that sent important information to the Gold Exchanged. Suddenly, it stopped working. The people in the company didn’t know what to do. But I knew what to do. I repaired the machine.

Doctor Samuel Laws, from the Gold Exchange, heard of my work. He offered to pay me 300 dollars a month to repair their machines! I was able to pay the dollar back, soon the president of the Gold and Stock telegraph company also heard of my work. ‘Can you repair the machines in our company?’ he asked me. 3,000 dollars or 5,000 dollars a year was good pay for the job, but he offered me 40,000 dollars! I was lucky once again. This was the start of my career as a businessman and inventor.