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May 2004 – Page 18

I Believe I Was Thomas Edison
by Rajen

This is why I believe I was Thomas Alva Edison. How do you explain:

• Walking around with a light bulb and battery in my pocket, Edison invented both.
• Stealing a battery to do science experiments.
• Winning the Science Fair Project with a project using light fiber optics.
• My father living in Chicago. Edison moved to Chicago, Toronto, and Ft Myers. The first place I took Crystal when she came here was to Ft.Myers. Just like we did. He was also in Ohio, a place I spent a lot of time for a company I worked for. I built a Crystal radio with a needle and a carbon tip just like a phonograph.
• Once my father gave me a battery for my birthday.
• I used to fix hearing aids not by trouble shooting but by knowing what was wrong with it from a feeling.
• I always keep notes on note pads in a mess just like he did.
• I would stay awake at night and ideas would come to me on how to solve things. He always slept in the lab for that very same reason.
• I could never pay a light bill on time because I have this feeling I should not pay for something I invented.
• I made a carbon mike and receiver work without ever knowing how.
• I always had wires in my pockets, and whenever I see a telephone punch block I always collect the remaining wires.
• I always had radios made with vacume tubes.
• The only subject I exceeded in is electronics I got the highest grade 4 years in a row, the only student to do that.
• I love bass because I could feel it. Edison was deaf and my father and I worked in a hearing aid company.
• He used to bite on the phonograph box because he was deaf and the vibrations he would feel. My grandmother always said I love to bite.
• Light bulbs in my house burn out in front of me.
• The T.V. turns on by itself.
• The door bell at the other house rings for no reason at all.
• I had a lab in the basement as he did.
• I was always making movies with a super-8 camera.
• He was born in February 11, 1847; I February 13, 1959. February 11, which is two days from Feb 13 which is why 1847 is 102 years from 1959, the 2 added to 1847 makes 1859.
• I worked for a company that made telegraph machine, and one called Ericsson.
• He worked for a telegraph company and his company is Edison.
• I always take charcoal pills, the carbon that made the filament work.
• My grandfather used to burn wood to make charcoal, and he lived not far from where Crystal lives.
• There is more to it than that because I have found out that carbon is the basic element that dictates the human body's internal clock.
• By way of carbon dating your body is able to tell how old you are by looking at the half life of your internal carbon molecule, but that's another story.
• I love photography. One of his best friend was Eastman.
• Anything I plant grows, because he also collected and grew plants.
• Edison wired and lit up the BroadWalk, I the BestWestern with Crystal Watson, my girlfriend by my side: my light.
• Who in his right mind would wire up a hotel with 37,000 feet of wire without ever having done it before? How many sane people would do something like that unless something drove them to.
• I was always trying to build a projector and audio equipment; that is what drove me to buy electrostatic speakers, and the best amp you could find.
• I always wanted to paint a car because anything Ford could build I could make look better.
• As karma would have it he hated the smell of food cooking so he put the kitchen outside; that's why I love to cook.

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