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"Filibustering on votes is one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to
prevent bad legislation, and this instrument would stop that.The youth felt the force of
this so much that he decided from that time forth not to try to invent anything unless it
would meet a genuine demand,--not from a few, but many people.It was while in Boston that
Edison grew weary of the monotonous life of a telegraph operator and began to work up an
independent business along inventive lines, so that he really began his career as an
inventor at the Hub.After the vote recorder, he invented a stock ticker, and started a
ticker service in Boston which had thirty or forty subscribers, and operated from a room
over the Gold Exchange.The third talk on Mr." (c) Kimberlea witnesseth