[SM014034], Interview, Thomas Alva Edison, February 12th, 1880
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Title
[SM014034], Interview, Thomas Alva Edison, February 12th, 1880
Editor's Notes
Interview with TAE on electric light. Difficulty with breaking globes nearly overcome. Preparing to construct 3 new buildings: dynamo building, lamp factory, filament manufactory. Discusses plans for NY central station; quoted saying he will eliminate every gas co on earth. "Steam engineering forms 75 per cent of the electric light, 20 per cent is in the system itself, 4 per cent is in the dynamos and 1 per cent in the lamps, and yet they are howling about the lamps.." Regarding published report in which TAE allegedly credits electric light to France 25 yrs ago, and his dynamno to Siemens, "Let a man get up a phonograph or something which, in fact, is a mere toy, nad has no commercial value, and there will never arise so much as a breath of dispute as to his rightful claim to the invention; but the moment he has sperfected something of commercial value, something that will conflict with the interests of long-established monopolies, and then there is a general rush to endeavor to pull him down...."
Author
Mentioned
Date
1880-02-12
Type
Folder/Volume ID
SM014-F
Microfilm ID
23:648
Document ID
SM014034
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University