Thomas Edison was one of America's greatest inventors. He was born in Ohio in 1847. He had very little schooling, but loved to read and invent things. As he was growing up, he sold magazines and candy on trains. Later, he worked in a telegraph office. During that time he began to develop and sell a number of inventions. He used the money he made to open up a manufacturing shop and laboratory. Later he opened just a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He and his laboratory invented many devices including the phonograph, movie film, and the alkaline battery. By the time he died in 1931, he had created over 1,000 inventions. Chronological order is a useful way to organize a biography like this one because A. that way the story builds suspense, which is very important in a biography. B. it makes sense to tell the events of a person's life in the order in which they happened. C. biography is non-fiction, and non-fiction works best if the events are told chronologically. D. the events in a biography can be told in any order, as long as they make sense.

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