Early Life | Thomas Alva Edison ( 1847-1931)

“To increase the sale of his papers, he telegraphed the headings of the war news to the stations in advance of the trains and placarded them to tempt the passengers. Ere long he conceived the plan of publishing a newspaper of his own. Having bought a quantity of old type at the office of the Detroit Free Press he installed it in a springless car, or ‘caboose' of the train meant for a smoking-room, but too uninviting to be much used by the passengers. Here he set the type and printed a small sheet about a foot square by pressing it with his hand.”