At around the age of 12, Edison started to lose his hearing. One
legend has it that a train conductor smacked him in the ears after he
started a fire in a boxcar by doing experiments. Edison himself said
that he was injured when the conductor picked him up by the ears onto a
moving train. Others had said that it caused by a bout of scarlet fever
during childhood. In all likelihood it was a genetic condition as both
Edison's father and one of his brothers also suffered from hearing loss.
But
one thing's for sure: Edison actually liked being deaf (technically, he
was hard of hearing, not completely deaf). He said that it made it
easier for him to concentrate on his experiments.
Oh, one more thing: Edison actually did
have a laboratory in a boxcar that caught on fire! Then 12-year-old
Edison took a job selling newspaper and candies on the Grand Trunk
Railroad from Port Huron to Detroit. He set up a lab for chemistry
experiments and a printing press in the baggage car, where he published
the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper published on a train.
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