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phonograph. The phonograph was the first Bill Gates is still alive to this day. If he
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thing that could record a voice! He was very makes $32.8 million a day, imagine how
excited because his hearing was bad and he much he makes in quarantine! He can
made the phonograph which needed a lot of probably make $20 billion in quarantine!
hearing! Edison was not only a scientist, he was That's still more money than I can make in
also in the army during the Civil war. Thomas my life. Bill Gates is the second richest man
Edison has been married twice! That is pretty on Earth, and the first is Jeff Bezos. He
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interesting right? He has six children. He had makes $275 million a day, but in quarantine
two children with his first wife. Are you he could make $80 million a day!
interested in how many things Edison When he was 13, Bill Gates programmed
invented? He invented 17 things in total! the schedule for his school and put all the
He died on October 18, 1931. girls that he liked in his class. Also, his first
I chose Edison because he invented the program was tic tac toe, and you could play
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lightbulb. Can you imagine if there was no light against a computer. So we can all say that
in the house? If there was no light, our house he was very smart. Stephen Hawking said
would be dark at night. We could use fire, but that technology might destroy humanity at
we couldn't always use it like emperors. It one point. The surprising thing is that Bill
would be too dangerous. If there was no light, disagreed.
our houses would be very dark. I think more I wrote about Bill Gates because I like
and more people should take things apart to computers and want to code stuff when I
see how it works just like what Edison did. grow up. I also think Bill Gates is an
interesting person to write about. Overall,
Bill Gates Bill Gates is a champion of the computing
world who has lots of influence in today’s
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world.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He is
about 65 years old now. Now Bill Gates is one
of the richest people on Earth. Bill Gates is the
youngest billionaire. He co-founded one of the
most successful tech companies of all time in
Microsoft. Bill Gates gets about $1.37 million an
hour, and about $32.8 million a day. That's
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