Thomas Edison lost his first job.For the next five years he went around the country from job to job.At last Edison went to New York.He had little money.He could not buy enough food to eat.He had no place to sleep.
For many days Edison looked for work.He was hungry.At last he found work fixing machines.He could fix the old machines.He also made new ones.The headman liked Edison?s new machines.He was going to give Edison ＄40,000 for them.Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.
Thomas Edison was then 23.He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey.He had many people working for him.But he worked more than any of them.He rested very little.Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone.But it could carry voices only a little way.Edison wanted to make a better telephone.He soon made one.It could carry voices a long way.

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　　chekhov is late 19th russia great critical realism writer, appeal meaningful, writing sharp humor irony, a master of the short fiction master, famous dramatist. chekhov was born in the family, father babble, he hits the bankruptcy by when governess finished high school, 1879 into muscovite university study medicine, medical 1884 after graduation and started literature. his life 7800 short novel creation, also wrote some medium-length novel and script. watership works most middle class "little guy" ordinary life, revealed the reactionary ruling class's brutality, attacked czar autocratic system. his short novel "the chameleon" "whoever card" "set of middleman" "civil servant's death." gorky once said: "this is a ?