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1. Thomas Eve Edison was born on February 11th....... 2. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio......... 3. Thomas Edison's education was at Cooper union......... 4 Thomas Edison died on October 18, 1931........
#1 is the fib! His name is not Eve... It's Alva.
100
1. 24 year old Thomas married 16 year old Mary Stilwell...... 2. His first wife died after 13 years of marriage....... 3. Married his second wife in 1886........ 4. Was 38 when he married his second wife
Number 4 is the fib. He was actually 39 when he married his second wife in 1886.
100
1. Edison would usually spend about 18 hours a day at his workshop..... 2. Edison had 193patents to his name... 3. Edison was a school dropout..... 4. Edison died due to complications arising from diabetes.....
The fib is #2. Edison actually has 1093 US patents to his name yet he wasn't bettered as the world's most prolific inventor until 72 years after his death.
100
1. Marion Estelle Edison was born in 1874.... 2. Thomas A Edison jr was born on January 10th 1876.... 3. Madeleine Edison was born in Glenmont.... 4. Theodore miller was born (and died) in NJ
#1 is the fib. Marion Estelle Edison was actually born in 1873.
100
1. Edison moved to New York City in 1869..... 2. In 1876, Edison moved to Menlo park...... 3. After his first wife died, Edison and his three kids (the other 3 weren't born yet) moved back to New York City..... 4. When Edison married Mina, they all moved to Houston, Texas....
#4 is the fib. They actually moved to West Orange, NewJersey, not Texas.
200
1. Thomas Edison was catholic...... 2. Thomas Edison's parents are named Samuel and nancy...... 3. Thomas Edison grew up in Port Huron Michigan..... 4. Thomas Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit...
#1 is the fib. Thomas Edison was actually deist .
200
1. Edison had 7 kids...... 2. Marion was his first kid.... 3. His son Thomas was nicknamed "dash"...... 4. Married his second wife, mina when she was 20......
#1 is the fib. Edison actually has 6 kids. He had 3 with Mary and 3 with Mina.
200
1. Edison married his first wife on Thanksgiving Day in the year he met her...... 2. Edison's first inventions included an electric vote recorder and a stock ticker..... 3. He invented the Edison battery, which made use of an alkaline electrolyte..... 4. He set up the world's first electric light power station in Lower Manhattan.
#1 is the fib. Edison married Mina on Christmas Day the year he met her.
200
1. Charles Edison served as the 41st governor of New Jersey... 2. William Edison boarded at St. Paul's school...... 3. Marion Edison married a man named Karl Oeser... 4 Theodore Edison married Anna Maria
#1 is the fib. Charles Edison served as the 42nd governor of NJ, not the 41st
200
1. Edison and Mina met in New England...... 2. A few months after Edison and Mina married, he built a new laboratory in their house in New Jersey..... 3.The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the light bulb....... 4. in 1899, Edison's challenge was to develop a better storage battery for use in electric vehicles.....
The fib is #3. He didn't invent the light bulb until 1879. He was in west orange. Actually, the first invention he made in Menlo was the phonograph..
300
1. Edison conducted chemical experiments on the train until an accident prohibited further work of the kind..... 2. Edison's nationality is European..... 3. Edison had his first kid at age 26... 4. Edison had his last kid at age 51
#2 is the fib. Edison is American, not European.
300
1. First born, Marion was born in 1873........ 2. Thomas, his second son, died at age 31........ 3. His son William graduated from Yale in 1900....... 4. His first wife Mary was a employee at his shop......
#2 is the fib. Thomas actually died at age 59. He was born in 1876 and died in 1935
300
#1 He was partly deaf... #2 He wore shabby clothes often.... #3 He would usually spend up to 18 hours a day in his workshop in Newark, New Jersey....#4 His child died after two days of his invention...
#4 is the fib! His child didn't die two days after his invention was invented...
300
1. Marion Edison was born February 18, 1972...... 2. William Leslie Edison was born on October 26, 1878... 3. Thomas Alva Edison junior was born on January 10, 1876..... 4. Madeleine Edison was born May 31, 1888.....
#1 is the fib. All of them were born in the 1800's. Only two of the kids lived past that date.
300
1. The last experimental work of Edison's life was done at the request of Edison's good friends Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone in the late 1920s...... 2. During the last two years of his life Edison was in really good health...... 3. In August 1931 Edison collapsed at Glenmont..... 4. Edison steadily declined until at 3:21 am on October 18, 1931 the great man died.....
#2 is the fib. Edison was actually in increasingly poor health during the last 2 years of his life
400
1. Edison built his first lab at age 12....... 2. Edison started losing his hearing at age 12.... 3. Edison saved a young boy from a runaway train... 4. Edison proposed to Mina miller by morse code
#1 is the fib. Surprisingly, Edison actually built his first lab when he was only 10 years old!
400
1. His last child was named Theodore....... 2. Mina outlived Thomas....... 3. Edison didn't have a child that was a girl....... 4. Edison's longest living child lived to be 94.......
#3 is the fib. Edison actually did have a 2 children that were girls . Their names were Madeleine and Marion.
400
#1 At first, he thought his invention wouldn't be on the market.... #2 he never really spent time with his family due to the invention... #3 In 1893 Edison constructed the first motion-picture studio....#4 By 1881 Edison had set up a complete electric lighting system at his Menlo Park home...
#1 Is the fib!!! He knew his invention was great.
400
1.Marion Estelle Edison was born February 18, 1872 in Haiti...... 2. Madeleine Edison was born May 31, 1888, the first Edison child to be born at Glenmont....... 3. Thomas Edison JR. Was nicknamed "dash"..... 4. William Edison served in the military during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and again in the First World War....
#1 is the fib! All of Edison's children were born in the U.S.
400
1. Thomas Edison was the great genius inventor of the electrical age........ 2. Edison presided the U.S. Navy Consulting Board throughout World War I and made 45 more inventions...... 3. Edison has recieved the Congressional Gold Medal........ 4. Edison died at age 79
#4 is the fib. Edison died at age 84, not 79!
500
1. Thomas Alva Edison is of Irish and British ancestry..... 2. Edison spent most of his salary on various laboratory and electrical instruments, which he would take apart and rebuild........ 3. Because of his work, Edison spent little time with his family and avoided socialization.... 4. Edison's most famous statement: “'Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”.
#1 is the fib. He has Dutch and British ancestory, not Irish.
500
1. Mina's father was named Lewis miller....... 2. Mina died in 1933......... 3. Mary died of an unknown cause....... 4. Edison's children with Mina were Madeleine, Charles, and Theodore.....
#2 is the fib. Mina actually died in 1947 at the age of 81.
500
#1 In 1876, Edison established a laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, the world’s first laboratory dedicated to industrial research... #2 Edison was already knowledgeable about electricity and telegraphy as a teenager...#3 In 1869, Edison met his first wife... #4 When he was 12, his job was selling newspapers, apples, and candy on the Detroit and Port Huron branch of the Grand Trunk Railroad.
#3 is the fib. Edison actually met his first wife in 1870.
500
1. Marion Edison lived to be 92..... 2. Both Thomas and William Edison only lived to be 50...... 3. Theodore Edison lived to be 94..... 4. Charles Edison lived to be 79...
#2 is the fib. Thomas and William both only lived to be 59, not 50. Thomas (1876-1935) and William ((1878-1937)
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1. Thomas Edison loved sleep.... 2. He was called "Al" during his childhood...... 3. Edison had 5 dots tattooed on his left forearm. Nobody knew what they meant.... 4. A famous quote by Edison is 'Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration'.....
#1 is the fib. Edison actually HATED sleep Edison was notouriois for his hatred of sleep.
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