[LB055546], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Charles E Potts, February 19th, 1892
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[LB055546], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Charles E Potts, February 19th, 1892
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Date
1892-02-19
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Folder/Volume ID
LB055-F
Microfilm ID
143:108
Document ID
LB055546
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Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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February 19, 1892.
Mr. Charles E. Potts,
No. 101 Eleventh Street,
Troy, N. Y.
Dear Sir:-
Reply to your letter of 31st ultimo has been unavoidably delayed.
In answer to your question I beg to inform you that what is known as the Edison Electric Railways System was first put in operation in the city of Richmond, Va. What you have in mind, however, may be Mr. Edison’s low tension system of electric propulsion, and if so I would say that that system has never been publicly introduced, it was unsuccessfully operated in 1880 on a three mile experimental track at Menlo Park, N. J.
Mr. Edison is much obliged for the article on “The Progress of Electricity” which accompanied your letter under reply.
Yours very truly,
A. O. Tate
Private Secretary,
M.
Mr. Charles E. Potts,
No. 101 Eleventh Street,
Troy, N. Y.
Dear Sir:-
Reply to your letter of 31st ultimo has been unavoidably delayed.
In answer to your question I beg to inform you that what is known as the Edison Electric Railways System was first put in operation in the city of Richmond, Va. What you have in mind, however, may be Mr. Edison’s low tension system of electric propulsion, and if so I would say that that system has never been publicly introduced, it was unsuccessfully operated in 1880 on a three mile experimental track at Menlo Park, N. J.
Mr. Edison is much obliged for the article on “The Progress of Electricity” which accompanied your letter under reply.
Yours very truly,
A. O. Tate
Private Secretary,
M.