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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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But
on
their
arriving
at
New
Orleans
the
vessel
had
sailed.
In
this
predicament
Edison
fell
in
with
a
travelled
Spaniard,
who
depicted
the
inferiority
of
other
countries,
and
especially
of
South
America,
in
such
vivid
colours,
that
he
changed
his
intention
and
returned
home
to
Michigan.
After
a
pleasant
holiday
with
his
friends
he
resumed
his
occupation
in
the
Louisville
office.
Contact
with
home
seems
to
have
charged
him
with
fresh
courage.
He
wrote
a
work
on
electricity,
which
for
lack
of
means
was
never
published,
and
improved
his
penmanship
until
he
could
write
a
fair
round
backhand
at
the
rate
of
forty-five
words
a
minute--that
is
to
say,
the
utmost
that
an
operator
can
send
by
the
Morse
code.
The
style
was
chosen
for
its
clearness,
each
letter
being
distinctly
formed,
with
little
or
no
shading.
His
comrades
were
no
better
than
before.
On
returning
from
his
work
in
the
small
hours,
Edison
would
sometimes
find
two
or
three
of
them
asleep
in
his
bed
with
their
boots
on,
and
have
to
shift
them
to
the
floor
in
order
that
he
might
'turn
in.'
A
new
office
was
opened,
but
strict
orders
were
issued
that
nobody
was
to
interfere
with
the
instruments
and
their
connections.
He
could
not
resist
the
infringement
of
this
rule,
however,
and
continued
his
experiments.
In
drawing
some
vitriol
one
night,
he
upset
the
carboy,
and
the
acid
eating
its
way
through
the
floor,
played
havoc
with
the
furniture
of
a
luxurious
bank
in
the
flat
below.
He
was
discharged
for
this,
but
soon
obtained
another
engagement
as
a
press
operator
in
Cincinnati.
He
spent
his
leisure
in
the
Mechanics'
Library,
studying
works
on
electricity
and
general
science.
He
also
developed
his
ideas
on
the
duplex
system;
and
if
they
were
not
carried
out,
they
at
least
directed
him
to
the
quadruplex
system
with
which
his
name
was
afterwards
associated.
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