95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
History That Doesn't Suck
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Alva's New Lab on a Train Car
Alva Mackenzie is an impetuous young man. He works as a telegrapher on the train, learning morse code and inventing new inventions. When he loses his suit to fire in one of the baggage cars, it's kicked off the train for good. But that isn't the end of the line - Alva uses the money to continue furnishing his mobile lab. The future inventor practises some 18 hours each day until morse code becomes a second language with James mackenzie.
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