Thomas Edison was a famous American (0) inventor. He (1) born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. His family was (2) poor that Edison (3) work from the time he was quite young. He went to school (4) only three months in his entire life, but everyone could see that he was very bright. (5) he worked with any kind of machine, he immediately (6) of ways to improve it.
Edison was a home schooled, self-educated person. Because he had so (7) formal education he learned almost everything by himself. Yet he invented so many things and designed such wonderful inventions that he (8) one of the greatest inventors of all time who changed the way people lived their daily lives.
He worked mainly in the field of electricity and was most famous (9) the invention of the first electric bulb. When Thomas Alva Edison died in 1931, President Herbert Hoover asked his countrymen to turn (10) their lamps for a moment. The whole country fell dark as a mark of respect for this great American.