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A brave child was born in Ohio during the mid-1800s. <\/span>With his abnormally large head and unusually questioning mind, it took only three months to convince his public school teachers that he was uneducable. <\/span>His mother, knowing better, took over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With persistence, she overcame his \u201cschooling,\u201d teaching him to read classics of history and science. <\/span>At age 13 he desired money for lab equipment and chemicals, and took a job delivering newspapers, always adding to his self-education at public libraries. <\/span>His time was limited because he also published his own newspaper and conducted chemistry experiments in his homemade laboratory. <\/span>Gracefully accepting deafness from an accident, he said it increased his ability to concentrate on his work. <\/span><\/p>\n \n When a fire ended his work in both chemistry and publication, he turned to the telegraph for earnings. <\/span>After saving the life of a child playing on a railroad, he was rewarded with telegraph operator instruction.<\/p>\n \n Earning unexpected money from his inventions, he built a successful career as an inventor. <\/span>Along the way, he patented many less well known innovations, such as an electric vote counter, a delayed telegraph for slower transcribers, and a dictating machine. <\/span>He also started use of the word \u201chello\u201d as a telephone greeting.<\/p>\n \n His famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera and projector, and, of course, the electric light bulb.<\/p>\n \n Working closely with Henry Ford and Alexander Bell, he came to \u201ccount his medals by the quart.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \u201cI owed my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom,<\/em>\u201d was the motto of Thomas A. Edison, home scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A brave child was born in Ohio during the mid-1800s. With his abnormally large head and unusually questioning mind, it took only three months to convince his public school teachers that he was uneducable. His mother, knowing better, took over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[97,19],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-biography","tag-famous-home-scholars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}