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Edison Uses The Telegraph to Propose to His Sweetheart

As a boy, Thomas Edison learned telegraphy. Later, after he had become a successful inventor, he used his ability at the telegraph key to send a proposal of marriage to his sweetheart, Mina Miller. Edison’s first wife died when he was thirty-seven. Later, he met Mina, a young and lovely lady. Edison taught Mina the Morse code, and after he had learned it, he tested her with a message tapped out with a coin. Mina decoded the “message,” which was really a marriage proposal, and tapped out her acceptance. Not the most romantic proposal in history, but certainly as effective as any on record. (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #1962).