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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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He
was
next
engaged
at
Fort
Wayne,
and
behaved
so
well
that
he
was
promoted
to
a
station
at
Indianapolis.
While
there
he
invented
an
'automatic
repeater,'
by
which
a
message
is
received
on
one
line
and
simultaneously
transmitted
on
another
without
the
assistance
of
an
operator.
Like
other
young
operators,
he
was
ambitious
to
send
or
receive
the
night
reports
for
the
press,
which
demand
the
highest
speed
and
accuracy
of
sending.
But
although
he
tried
to
overcome
his
faults
by
the
device
of
employing
an
auxiliary
receiver
working
at
a
slower
rate
than
the
direct
one,
he
was
found
incompetent,
and
transferred
to
a
day
wire
at
Cincinnati.
Determined
to
excel,
however,
he
took
shift
for
the
night
men
as
often
as
he
could,
and
after
several
months,
when
a
delegation
of
Cleveland
operators
came
to
organise
a
branch
of
the
Telegraphers'
Union,
and
the
night
men
were
out
on
'strike,'
he
received
the
press
reports
as
well
as
he
was
able,
working
all
the
night.
For
this
feat
his
salary
was
raised
next
day
from
sixty-five
to
one
hundred
and
five
dollars,
and
he
was
appointed
to
the
Louisville
circuit,
one
of
the
most
desirable
in
the
office.
The
clerk
at
Louisville
was
Bob
Martin,
one
of
the
most
expert
telegraphists
in
America,
and
Edison
soon
became
a
first-class
operator.
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