Fill in the Blanks Wordly Wise Book 5 Lesson 14 - Fill in the BlankOnline version Wordly Wise Book 5 Lesson 14 - Fill in the Blank by Anthony L 1 taunts delicate transformation associate provided decade boisterous required employed brilliant accessible idle tolerate illuminated wilderness 1 . Edison's childhood was in some ways a solitary one . The other children at his school would not with him . 2 . The young Edison withdrew from his schoolmates . He was quiet and thoughtful , while they were and unkind to him . 3 . Edison showed from an early age that he was very strong - minded . He probably did not allow the of his classmates to upset him too much . 4 . Edison never claimed to be a city boy . In fact , much of Michigan where he grew up was still . 5 . Edison was granted over a thousand patents . Money received from these patents him with the funds to continue his research . 6 . Two things made it possible for Edison to do so much . During this waking hours he was never , and he needed less sleep than most people . 7 . Edison didn't believe in wasting time . He almost every waking moment to working on or improving new inventions . 8 . He was strict in his dealings with others . He would not laziness in himself or others . 9 . The electric light bulb was probably Edison's most useful invention . Light was instantly with the flick of a switch . 10 . Edison's light bulb was made of clear glass . Inside it a thread began to glow when electricity passed through it . 11 . Edison tried many kinds of thread before finding one that worked . Such an effort on his part great patience . 12 . The concept of electric light spread rapidly . Within a few years , whole cities were being by electricity . 13 . Electric power soon became widely available In the United States . This brought about a total in people's lives . 14 . Edison never really tired . He continued working until he died in 1931 , in the ninth of his long and busy life . 15 . Edison's place in history is secure . He was without a doubt the most inventor of the nineteenth century .
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