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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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His
assistants
are
selected
for
their
skill
and
physical
endurance.
The
chief
at
Menlo
Park
was
Mr.
Charles
Batchelor,
a
Scotchman,
who
had
a
certain
interest
in
the
inventions,
but
the
others,
including
mathematicians,
chemists,
electricians,
secretary,
bookkeeper,
and
mechanics,
were
paid
a
salary.
They
were
devoted
to
Edison,
who,
though
he
worked
them
hard
at
times,
was
an
indulgent
master,
and
sometimes
joined
them
in
a
general
holiday.
All
of
them
spoke
in
the
highest
terms
of
the
inventor
and
the
man.
The
Menlo
establishment
was
unique
in
the
world.
It
was
founded
for
the
sole
purpose
of
applying
the
properties
of
matter
to
the
production
of
new
inventions.
For
love
of
science
or
the
hope
of
gain,
men
had
experimented
before,
and
worked
out
their
inventions
in
the
laboratories
of
colleges
and
manufactories.
But
Edison
seems
to
have
been
the
first
to
organise
a
staff
of
trained
assistants
to
hunt
up
useful
facts
in
books,
old
and
modern,
and
discover
fresh
ones
by
experiment,
in
order
to
develop
his
ideas
or
suggest
new
ones,
together
with
skilled
workmen
to
embody
them
in
the
fittest
manner;
and
all
with
the
avowed
object
of
taking
out
patents,
and
introducing
the
novel
apparatus
as
a
commercial
speculation.
He
did
not
manufacture
his
machines
for
sale;
he
simply
created
the
models,
and
left
their
multiplication
to
other
people.
There
are
different
ways
of
looking
at
Nature:
'To
some
she
is
the
goddess
great;
To
some
the
milch-cow
of
the
field;
Their
business
is
to
calculate
The
butter
she
will
yield.'
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