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Although Edison’s system was never used, it was a precursor for automatic voting used in today’s legislature.

The chairman was unimpressed with Edison’s machine and told Roberts that he didn’t want it. They continued to use their original system.

After Edison was issued the patent, telegrapher Dewitt Roberts bought interest in it for $100 and brought it to D.C. to exhibit to Congress.

How it works: each legislator moved a switch from yes or no transmitting a signal to a central recorder that had the names of members.

Edison designed the vote recorder to help Congress to vote faster. Their system of doing roll call for voting was slow and inefficient.

Edison was 22 years old when he came up with the idea. It was his first patented invention.

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