Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... From 1863 to 1868, Edison moved around the country as a telegraph operator, improving his skills until he reached the elite corps of telegraphers who could ...

With little formal education, Thomas Edison gained experience as a telegraph operator and then went on to invent several electricity inspired devices like the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thomas Alva Edison came to Louisville in 1866, at the young age of 19, to work as a telegraph key operator. He landed a job with the Western Union located on Second and ...

“Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor ... After saving a stationmaster’s son from being run over, the boy’s father teaches Edison to operate the telegraph. He travels the Midwest with ...