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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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These
attempts
to
improve
his
time
seem
to
have
made
him
unpopular,
for
after
a
short
term
in
Cincinnati,
he
returned
to
Port
Huron.
A
friend,
Mr.
F.
Adams,
operator
in
the
Boston
office
of
the
Western
Union
Telegraph
Company,
recommended
Edison
to
his
manager,
Mr.
G.
F.
Milliken,
as
a
good
man
to
work
the
New
York
wire,
and
the
berth
was
offered
to
Edison
by
telegraph.
He
accepted,
and
left
at
once
for
Boston
by
the
Grand
Trunk
Railway,
but
the
train
was
snowed
up
for
two
days
near
the
bluffs
of
the
St.
Lawrence.
The
consequence
might
have
been
serious
had
provisions
not
been
found
by
a
party
of
foragers.
Mr.
Milliken
was
the
first
of
Edison's
masters,
and
perhaps
his
fellows,
who
appreciated
him.
Mediocrity
had
only
seen
the
gawky
stripling,
with
his
moonstruck
air,
and
pestilent
habit
of
trying
some
new
crotchet.
Himself
an
inventor,
Milliken
recognised
in
his
deep-set
eye
and
musing
brow
the
fire
of
a
suppressed
genius.
He
was
then
just
twenty-one.
The
friendship
of
Mr.
Milliken,
and
the
opportunity
for
experiment,
rendered
the
Boston
office
a
congenial
one.
His
by-hours
were
spent
in
a
little
workshop
he
had
opened.
Among
his
inventions
at
this
period
were
a
dial
telegraph,
and
a
'printer'
for
use
on
private
lines,
and
an
electro-chemical
vote
recorder,
which
the
Legislature
of
Massachusetts
declined
to
adopt.
With
the
assistance
of
Mr.
F.
L.
Pope,
patent
adviser
to
the
Western
Union
Telegraph
Company,
his
duplex
system
was
tried,
with
encouraging
results.
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