Hi larlyl,
Thank you for your question.
IMDb Biography for Thomas A. Edison
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249379/bio
"Enjoyed communication with Morse Code so much, that he proposed
marriage to his girlfriend in it, and nicknamed his children "Dot" and
"Dash"."
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Everything2.com
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Thomas%20Edison
Thomas Edison
"In 1871 two important events happed: Edison's mother died, and later
that year, on Christmas day, he married Mary Stilwell, a former
employee. Their first child, Marion, was born in February 1873; their
first son, Thomas, Jr., in January of 1876 (these two were nicknamed
Dot and Dash by their father)..."
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