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When Edison was 14, he contracted scarlet fever. The effect of the fever, as well as a blow to the head by an angry train conductor, caused Edison to become completely deaf in his left ear, and 80 percent deaf in the other.
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∙ 9y agoThomas Edison was around the age of 12 when he lost his hearing. Hearing loss did run in his family, but there are reports he was boxed in his ears after accidentally setting fire to a train.
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How old was thomas Edison when he lost his hearing?
Around the age of twelve, Edison lost almost all his hearing.
How did Thomas Edison lose his hearing?
Thomas Edison lost his hearing because at the age 12 he had scarlet fever and recurring a untreated middle ear infection.
Did Thomas Edison have scarlet fever?
Thomas Edison got Scarlet Fever at the age of twelve and almost lost all of his hearing.
What was Thomas Alva Edison disabilities?
At the age of 12 he nearly lost his hearing and still was disabled
How did thomas Edison feel about not hearing?
Thomas Edison ones told a reporter that his hearing problem help him at his job because he was peaceful when he worked
What is the book name of Edison?
Edison and the pirates of lost bay
Where did Thomas Edison live most of the time?
were did thomas Edison live
Thomas A Edison had a little disability since he was a kid What was the handicap?
Yes. He couldn't hear very well. Many think that it was from scarlet fever he had as a child that blocked out his hearing. That might have also been the reason for his poor grades in school.
Did Thomas Edison had trouble when he grew up?
yes, he had hearing problems
When did Thomas Edison lose most of his hearing?
he started to wipe his hole
How was Thomas Edison handycap?
He became hearing impaired at an early age
Why did Thomas Edison started a fire on the barn?
You're mixing a few stories, which (unfortunately) Edison was also known to do. Thus, it is difficult to sort out which stories of Edison's early life were true, which were false, and which were exaggerations. Anyway, the two stories you are probably remembering are from Edison's fierce determination to study chemistry while working as a teenager. In the first story, Edison claimed that his chemicals started a fire in a train's boxcar, resulting in the train conductor slapping him on the side of his head while throwing him off the train*. In the second story, Edison spilled some battery acid while working as a telegraph operator. The acid dripped through the floor and onto the desk of his boss in the floor below -- resulting in Edison getting fired. I reiterate that it is difficult to discern the truth in either of these stories, as Edison was never consistent in relating his early life. * This was the FIRST story Edison told about how he lost most of his hearing. He later said a conductor grabbed him by his ears while Edison ran to get on a moving train. As both Thomas' father and brother were also quite hard of hearing, it is more likely that all of them lost hearing due to scarlet fever.
