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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
200
The
moving
spirit
of
this
haunt
by
day
and
night
is
well
described
as
an
overgrown
school-boy.
He
is
a
man
of
a
slim,
but
wiry
figure,
about
five
feet
ten
inches
in
height.
His
face
at
this
period
was
juvenile
and
beardless.
The
nose
and
chin
were
shapely
and
prominent,
the
mouth
firm,
the
forehead
wide
and
full
above,
but
not
very
high.
It
was
shaded
by
dark
chestnut
hair,
just
silvered
with
grey.
His
most
remarkable
features
were
his
eyes,
which
are
blue-grey
and
deeply
set,
with
an
intense
and
piercing
expression.
When
his
attention
was
not
aroused,
he
seemed
to
retire
into
himself,
as
though
his
mind
had
drifted
far
away,
and
came
back
slowly
to
the
present.
He
was
pale
with
nightwork,
and
his
thoughtful
eyes
had
an
old
look
in
serious
moments.
But
his
smile
was
boyish
and
pleasant,
and
his
manner
a
trifle
shy.
There
was
nothing
of
the
dandy
about
Edison,
He
boasted
no
jewelled
fingers
or
superfine
raiment.
An
easy
coat
soiled
with
chemicals,
a
battered
wide-awake,
and
boots
guiltless
of
polish,
were
good
enough
for
this
inspired
workman.
An
old
silver
watch,
sophisticated
with
magnetism,
and
keeping
an
eccentric
time
peculiar
to
it,
was
his
only
ornament.
On
social
occasions,
of
course,
he
adopted
a
more
conventional
costume.
Visitors
to
the
laboratory
often
found
him
in
his
shirt-sleeves,
with
dishevelled
hair
and
grimy
hands.
The
writer
of
'A
Night
with
Edison'
has
described
him
as
bending
like
a
wizard
over
the
smoky
fumes
of
some
lurid
lamps
arranged
on
a
brick
furnace,
as
if
he
were
summoning
the
powers
of
darkness.
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