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How did he lose his hearing? Was he really boxed in the ears as a child?

April 26, 2017Boxed child ears hearing lose

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How did he lose his hearing? Was he really boxed in the ears as a child?

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The movie Young Tom Edison shows Edison (played by Mickey Rooney) being boxed in the ears after he accidentally set fire to a train car with his experiments. But why, then, did Edison’s father and his son Charles also have the same hearing loss? It seems that hearing loss ran in the family. An illness might also have made Edison’s hearing worse.