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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World

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The Story of Edison at 21

Edison fell into the good graces of James Mackenzie a station agent when he rescued Mackenzie's son who was playing obliviously on the train tracks. The other diversion that occupied Edison's every spare moment was telegraphy's Morse code which he tried to absorb on his own through osmosis sitting close by the telegraph instruments in the railroad offices listening and watching. He, meaning Mackenzie, became Edison's personal Morse code tutor and Edison soon became proficient. This intent this intensive tutelage soon enabled him to become a professional telegraph operator. So just to summarize what we're at right now Edison's convinces his mom at the age of 12 hey let's stop

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