[TAE autograph---original] "Upon what royalty will you permit me to build you engine to be used & sold only by the Edison Light Cos in connection with their dynamos. They now use the Armington & Sims engine exclusively and the substitution of your engine would not interfere with your present market."

Edison, Thomas Alva

Straight Line Engine Co

Armington and Sims

Edison Electric Light Co

1883-11-03

1880-1889

Letter

Competition and market structure

Patent assignments, licenses, and royalties

Engines, boilers, prime movers

Dynamos and generators

B017AH

B017

[B017AH], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Straight Line Engine Co, November 3rd, 1883

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University