Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. As a child, Einstein revealed an extraordinary curiosity for understanding the mysteries of science (started only at age 10/11). A typical child (only to his socio-economic class — educated middle class), Einstein took music lessons, playing both the violin and piano — a passion that followed him into adulthood.  Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor's degree.

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. In 1954 his parents moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison also grew up there. As a child Edison had time to attend school only for 3 months. His teacher warned small Edison that he could not learn in school and eventually her mother decided to teach himself Edison at home. Incidentally his mother a teacher. This is done because when the Edison school, including students who are often left behind and he was considered a gifted student who is not.

Although no schools, small Edison showed a profound nature curious and always wanted to try. Before reaching school age he had dissected the animals, not to torture the animals, but purely driven by a great curiosity. At the age of eleven years of Edison built a simple chemical laboratory in the basement of his father's home. A year later he managed to make a telegraph that despite its primitive but it works.

Of course, experiments that do require a sizable fee. To meet the needs that, at the age of twelve years Edison worked as a seller of newspapers and candy on the train that runs between the city of Port Huron and Detroit. In order to spare time on the train was not wasted Edison asked for permission to the railroad company, "Grand Trunk Railway", to create a small laboratory in one of the railway carriage. It was there that she experimented and read the literature when it was not on duty.