Amelia Mary Earhart was born in her grandmothers house in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897. The house was high on a hill. It had eleven rooms. Maids and a cook worked there. Dinner was served on fine china. Amelias mothers parents had a lot of mone...
Amelia Earhart was a pioneer. This doesnt mean she traveled west in a covered wagon or lived in a log cabin. It means she had a special spirit. She liked to be the first to do new things. In the 1920s, Amelia became a pilot. This was in a time when t...
TIMELINE OF TOMS LIFE 1847 Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11 1854 The Edisons move to Port Huron, Michigan 1859 Works as a newsboy on the railroad 1863 Works as a telegraph operator in cities around the U.S. 1868 Moves to Boston, Massachusetts; inv...
Tom was a man who never ran out of ideas. Although Tom was hard of hearing, he never lost his hearing completely. He didnt let it become a problem, even when his hearing got worse as he got older. In fact, he said it was a good thing because he could...
In 1884, at the height of his success, Tom suffered a terrible loss. His wife Mary died of an illness. She was only twenty-nine years old. Tom had his children stay in New York City. His electricity business was there. He wanted to spend as much time...
It was the summer of 1878. Tom had been working hard for a long time. He was thinking about taking a vacation. Then a friend invited him to join a group of scientists. They were traveling by train to Wyoming to see an eclipse of the sun. Tom decided...
In the mid 1800s, a man in France and a man in Massachusetts both came up with ways to record soundbut as a pattern on paper much the way the dots and dashes of Morse code look on paper. Nobody had figured out how to record sounds and play them back...
In 1869 Tom arrived in New York without a job. But Tom had no trouble finding one. He was already known and respected as a smart young man with exciting, original ideas. He was someone who could make things. Tom had no problem finding work. After a w...
Al was twelve when his father helped him get a job on the Grand Trunk Railroad. The train traveled back and forth between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan, every day. Al was a newsboy. Along with other boys, he sold newspapers, magazines, and snacks...
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, on a cold snowy night in Milan, Ohio. His parents, Nancy and Samuel, named him Thomas after his great-uncle and Alva after Captain Alva Bradley, a good friend of his father. The family didnt call him...
