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    Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself
    Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself
    Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself
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    Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself

    By JG Hampton

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    During a field trip to Edison's laboratory in New Jersey, Sam, a precocious teenager with sticky fingers, inadvertently brings the scientist home. Everything comes out in the wash including the world famous scientist who has reinvented himself from a tiny more compact form or ball of energy.

    Edison finds that he has been misplaced into the future where he is
    hopelessly out of date. More than his clothes need updating. Since
    two heads are better than one, can the pair of them solve the problem of global warming and mend the hole in the ozone layer?
    What is it like for a teen to parent a man that is more than one hundred years old and a cantankerous one at that? Has he bitten off more than he can chew?

    Add a luminescent, glow in the dark pig into the mix and settle back for a good read. Does Sam solve the problem plaguing the world while getting an A on his science project?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJG Hampton
    Release dateOct 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301544493
    Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself
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    JG Hampton

    J. G. Hampton is a full time author/illustrator who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah as an educator who thanks to recertification requirements has accumulated enough hours for a master’s degree from Utah State University. A survivor of both a wicked mother-in-law and a wicked stepmother who stole her inheritance, she’s trying to live happily ever after despite a few evil spells during her life. Being left handed in a right handed world, she has yet to master Leonardo Da Vinci’s mirror handwriting technique, but she has mastered being a reverse image identical mirror twin who not only survived her birth as the runt of the litter, but the birthing of three daughters and over twenty literary magnum opuses in several genres. While constantly rooting for the underdogs of the world, she looks at crystal goblets and life as being half full rather than half empty. A firm believer that one must create their own magic if one is to enjoy life. She enjoys happy endings in her fiction and nonfiction musings. Enjoy her work on Smashwords

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      Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself - JG Hampton

      Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself by JG Hampton.2013 Smashwords edition. Thomas Edison Reinvents Himself by JG Hampton ebook edition. This fictional e-book is designed for your enjoyment after purchasing at Smashwords.com. Enjoy. Please respect the hard work and time of the author by not pirating the work. If you would like an additional copy to share with a friend, return to smashwords.com and purchase one. E-books make great gifts. Enjoy other works by J.G. Hampton: Charlotte and the Ice Cream Factory, Charlotte and the Humongous Bat, Charlotte and the Easter Rabbit, The Tale of Pinkalotta Pipsqueak in Bullies for You, Diary of a Wimpy Czarovitch, The Secret in the Garden, Confessions of a Former Fairy Godmother, The Bog Queen's Mile High Pie Fly, Abraham Lincoln and his Sons, The Bedtime Story, Three Ornery Blind Mice, Confessions of a Former Fairy Godmother, Haunted Halls, Tales and Toys, Polygamy, was it Worth Dying For?

      Visiting the past is like touring a foreign land, everything is different, even the language- G. Elliott Nash

      What will be will be; the future’s not ours to see. !Que sera; sera.!

      Popular song sung by Doris Day in a movie in the Sixties

      Chapter One – A Super Duper Blooper

      Thomas Alva Edison was proud of himself having just registered his one thousand ninety- third patent for a new invention. Not many people could brag about that. Holding the Guiness book of records for patents was quite an accomplishment in his opinion. Even gifted Abraham Lincoln had only registered one patent which was one more than any other president. Lincoln might not have done that if the office hadn’t been nearby his law office in Springfield, Illinois. Not even Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein could top his record and Einstein had worked in a patent office registering patents.

      Several of Edison’s inventions had made him very rich. His phonograph invention was his favorite because it allowed ordinary people to have music in their lives. His most brilliant idea however was the incandescent light bulb. How he’d sweated over that one trying to get the right filament. After testing more than two thousand filaments, his tungsten filament had been exactly what he’d been looking for in lighting. Voila! And there was quality electrical light for the first time in history. What if he’d given up? Persistence definitely pays.

      Invention is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. lectured the inventor glibly to a sold out audience. "If you’re not willing to sweat a little don’t be an inventor. I learn just as much from my mistakes as I do my successes. I also learn from other inventors’ mistakes, like Ben Franklin. One of Doctor Franklin’s most amazing inventions was the Franklin stove which he didn’t bother to patent. Others in Europe did and became filthy rich laughing all the way to the bank over his intentional oversight and they hadn’t sweated over it like he had.

      How smart was that? I think I can spend my hard earned money better than strangers can." Everyone in the audience laughed at the wizened old inventor’s common sense.

      How risky is being a scientist, Mr. Edison? asked one curious boy during a question and answer session.

      Well, I’m sure you’ve all heard about Dr. Franklin’s famous experiment flying the kite during an electrical storm with a key, a kite string and a glass bottle battery proving that lightening and electricity were one and the same. Others duplicating that same experiment were not nearly as lucky as he was. They were fried stiff. Needless to say that was their last experiment. Try it at your own risk. Peals of laughter bounced off the ceiling of the room. Had he said something funny? How morbid were audiences these days.

      Have you had some near misses? asked his freckle faced nine year old relative planted in the audience. Edison wanted people to use his direct current electricity rather than alternating current when they signed up for their own electrical companies. A fortune was at stake here, his own.

      Several Jane, electricity kills. You’ve all seen pictures of my feat electrocuting the Asian elephant who’d killed three people in the newspapers. I recorded it with my newly invented moving picture camera. A few of you may have been lucky enough to see the film. The rogue had been condemned to death and I obliged the authorities using my electrical currents to bring the killer down. Science experiments can be hazardous to animals and one’s own health. I believe the prison authorities are now using it as a humane way to end lives on death row.

      Everyone laughed at this remark too. He waited for the cacophony to die down before he continued: Madame Curie and others working with radiation died as a result of their experiments. But in my opinion, the risk is well worth it. I’m sure that Madame Curie enjoyed her Nobel prize money or at least her grandchildren did. Titters of laughter reverberated through the lecture hall.

      Besides, the money, there’s the fame and acclaim. Some of us do like becoming glow worms in the lime light for awhile before we become worms after we die. Guffaws as well as applause were heard after this comment. He had the audience practically eating out of his hand. Why, no wonder Mark Twain enjoyed his lecture tours. A good audience was stimulating as well as refreshing to his ego; it didn’t hurt having a few fans nor did it matter much if he had a big head.

      What other rewards has science brought you? asked an old grandmother in the audience.

      Well, besides my beautiful estate and Menlo Park, I’ve a lifetime supply of dental floss from my filament experiments which I prefer over toothpicks. Oh! You’ve reminded me that I need to patent that idea before my floor sweeper does and gets rich from my labor of love. Wealth can come from the strangest products, but perhaps first I should invent toothpaste. The hall reverberated with laughter. Obviously the folks in the audience didn’t like brushing their teeth with baking soda any more than he did and the peppermint powder available wasn’t much better. "Dr. Franklin cooked turkey dinners with electricity one hundred years before the invention of the electrical stove. Being a scientist has its perks as well as its risks. I read my newspaper at night by the glow of my incandescent bulbs while you poor devils are still using gas lighting.

      "One night Franklin almost cooked his own goose rather than the turkey he’d provided for his dinner guests when he got

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