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He didn't attend college. At the age of 12 he became a railroad newsboy and began to experiment with chemistry. Gaining the exclusive right to sell newspapers on his line and purchasing some old type he published the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper printed in a train. A station master taught him telegraphy and he invented an automatic repeater so messages could be sent from wire to another without the use of an operator. He developed the system of duplex telegraphy while he was a telegraph operator in Boston. In 1871 he invented the printing telegraph and established a workshop at Newark, NJ. He moved to Menlo, NJ in 1876. He was now ready for a workshop to create hundred of inventions.

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Why didn't Thomas Edison attend college?

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