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Thomas Edison faced challenges early in life as he was deemed unintelligent by his teachers and fired from multiple jobs. Despite these setbacks, he pursued his passion for inventing and obtained over one thousand patents throughout his career, including groundbreaking inventions like the stock printer, phonograph, and alkaline battery. Even after succeeding with the light bulb, Edison's attempt to establish his own ore mining plant to supply materials failed after nearly a decade of effort. However, one of the 47 patents from that project revolutionized the cement industry and recouped his losses. Edison's perseverance through failures and willingness to take risks paved the way for modern industrial laboratories.

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Thomas Edison faced challenges early in life as he was deemed unintelligent by his teachers and fired from multiple jobs. Despite these setbacks, he pursued his passion for inventing and obtained over one thousand patents throughout his career, including groundbreaking inventions like the stock printer, phonograph, and alkaline battery. Even after succeeding with the light bulb, Edison's attempt to establish his own ore mining plant to supply materials failed after nearly a decade of effort. However, one of the 47 patents from that project revolutionized the cement industry and recouped his losses. Edison's perseverance through failures and willingness to take risks paved the way for modern industrial laboratories.

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Thomas Edison faced challenges early in life as he was deemed unintelligent by his teachers and fired from multiple jobs. Despite these setbacks, he pursued his passion for inventing and obtained over one thousand patents throughout his career, including groundbreaking inventions like the stock printer, phonograph, and alkaline battery. Even after succeeding with the light bulb, Edison's attempt to establish his own ore mining plant to supply materials failed after nearly a decade of effort. However, one of the 47 patents from that project revolutionized the cement industry and recouped his losses. Edison's perseverance through failures and willingness to take risks paved the way for modern industrial laboratories.

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Thomas Edison faced challenges early in life as he was deemed unintelligent by his teachers and fired from multiple jobs. Despite these setbacks, he pursued his passion for inventing and obtained over one thousand patents throughout his career, including groundbreaking inventions like the stock printer, phonograph, and alkaline battery. Even after succeeding with the light bulb, Edison's attempt to establish his own ore mining plant to supply materials failed after nearly a decade of effort. However, one of the 47 patents from that project revolutionized the cement industry and recouped his losses. Edison's perseverance through failures and willingness to take risks paved the way for modern industrial laboratories.

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The story of Thomas Edison (please adapt to the context)

When he was young, Thomas Edison’s parents took him out of school after his teachers declared
that he was “stupid” and “unreachable.” Edison spent his early years working and being fired
from various jobs, culminating in his firing from a telegraph company at the age of 21. Despite
these numerous setbacks, Edison was never discouraged from his true calling in life: inventing!
Throughout his career, Edison obtained more than one thousand patents. And although several of
these stock printer, phonograph and alkaline battery -- were groundbreaking innovations, the vast
majority of them could be fairly described as failures. Edison is now famous for saying that
genius is “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” One of Edison’s best examples of perseverance
occurred after he was already a successful man. After inventing the light bulb, he began seeking
an inexpensive light bulb filament. At the time, ore was mined in the Midwest of the United
States, and shipping costs were very high. In order to minimize his costs with ore, Edison
established his own ore-mining plant in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. For nearly ten years, he
devoted his time and money to the enterprise. Edison also obtained 47 patents for innovations
that helped make the plant run more smoothly. And even despite those inventions, Edison’s core
project failed because of the low quality of ore on the East Coast. However, despite that failing,
one of those 47 inventions (a crushing machine) revolutionized the cement industry, and actually
earned Edison back almost all of the money he had lost. Later, Henry Ford would credit Edison’s
Ogdensburg project as the main inspiration for his Model T Ford assembly line. And in fact,
many believe that Edison paved the way for modern-day industrial laboratories. Edison’s foray
into ore-mining demonstrates that dedication can pay off even in a losing venture’s inventions
such as the light bulb,
Instructions: Read the story of Thomas Edison for the students answer the following
reflection questions:
• What are the major challenges that Thomas Edison faced?
• What were his achievements?
• What are the causes for his success?
• What do we learn from the story of Thomas Edison?

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