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In 1865-66, Thomas Alva Edison worked as a military telegraph operator with the Federal occupation army in Memphis, working in a building formerly at the east corner of North Court and November 6 Streets and boarding next door. While trying to invent an auto-repeat key, he managed to connect New Orleans with New York directly for the first time after the war. As a result, a jealous superior discharged him, and he left Memphis.
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