February 11 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1847
Thomas Edison is born
In Milan, Ohio, Thomas Alva Edison is born, the seventh child of a shingle-maker's family. Pulled from school after three months as addled, he is educated mostly at home by his mother. The phonograph, the practical light bulb and the motion picture camera all lie ahead of him.