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编辑点评： 考生在新GRE写作中要格外重视思维逻辑与论据论证，平时注意积累素材，多收集一些新GRE写作论据论证例子。下面是小编为大家搜集的关于爱迪生的名人素材，希望能够帮助大家更好地备考新GRE写作，获得新GRE写作高分。 Inventor. Born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. His father was a jack-of-all-trades, his mother a former teacher. Edison spent three months in school, then was taught at home by his mother. At the age of 12 he sold fruit, candy, and papers on the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 1862, using his small handpress in a baggage car, he wrote and printed the Grand Trunk Herald, which was circulated to 400 railroad employees. That year he became a telegraph operator, taught by the father of a child whose life Edison had saved. Exempt from military service because of deafness, he was a tramp telegrapher until he joined Western Union Telegraph Company in Boston in 1868. Probably Edison s first invention was an automatic telegraph repeater . His first patent was for an electric vote recorder. In 1869, as a partner in a New York electrical firm, he perfected the stock ticker and sold it. This money, in addition to that from his share of the partnership, provided funds for his own factory in Newark, N.J. Edison hired technicians to collaborate on inventions; he wanted an invention factory. As many as 80 earnest men, including chemists, physicists, and mathematicians, were on his staff. Invention to order became very profitable. | 
