Appendix A. AN EDISON CHRONOLOGY
1847
February 11: Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio.
1859-1860
Winter: Young Tom Edison goes to work as a "news butcher," selling newspapers, magazines, dime novels, candy, and other sundries on the trains of the Grand Trunk Western Railway between Port Huron and Detroit.
1862
Spring: Edison writes, edits, publishes, and sells The Weekly Herald aboard a Grand Trunk train.
Fall: Edison apprentices to telegrapher James Mackenzie, station agent at Mount Clemens, Michigan.
1864-1865
Fall–winter: While working as a telegrapher for Western Union in Indianapolis, Indiana, Edison commences research to improve telegraph repeaters and embarks on design work for telegraphy devices that would enable the simultaneous ...
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