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1. Edison always wanted to make things that would improve the lives of people.
2. One day while selling newspapers at a railway station, Edison saved the life of a child.
3. That child was the son of a station official.
4. To express his gratitude, the child’s father taught Edison how to use the telegraph.
5. When Edison was sixteen, he moved to Canada to be a telegraph assistant.
6. His first invention was an automatic telegraph that made it possible for him to send signals while he was sleeping
7. The telegraph always fascinated Edison.
8. A few years later, he quit his first job to be a full time inventor.
9. His first attempts at selling his products were not successful, but he did not give up.