[D7802ZZFZ], Letter from George Frederick Barker to Thomas Alva Edison, October 20th, 1878
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- Title
- [D7802ZZFZ], Letter from George Frederick Barker to Thomas Alva Edison, October 20th, 1878
- Editor's Notes
- papers TAE sent Barker have been sent to printers; quite surprised at attitude Morton took other night toward EL as if he hadn't seen TAE light might have at least taken his word for it [perhaps use TAE to Morton here, this is prob in ref to Sun article]; how much longer before ready to make public; saw notice of organization of EL Co is it for US or only NY; sent letter of intro for gas man he was introduced to; what about light in Phil and can Barker have a chance there; brother-in-law with whom they stayed in St. Louis is officer of a Gas Co and wants to know if TAE can do anything for him there; depending on TAE for lecture on 14 Nov and expecting both TAE and Batchelor, expects to have two Wallaces, a Gramme, a Siemens, and a Brush to try TAE new light with, wants at least 20 burners, will drive all machines with the new Otto gas engine which TAE saw at Wallace's; will he have Batch send things wanted, including old auto apparatus; has TAE seen Draper since his return, wants TAE to come see him in NY, National Academy meets in NY on 5 NOv.
- Author
- Barker, George Frederick
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Mentioned
- Laclede Gas Light Co
- Edison Electric Light Co
- Batchelor, Charles
- Brush, Charles Francis
- Siemens, Werner von
- Gramme, Zenobe Theophile
- Draper, Henry
- Morton, Henry
- Thomson, William, (Lord Kelvin)
- Wallace, William
- Otto, Nikolaus August
- Date
- 1878-10-20
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Management (companies and organizations)
- Sales and service
- Expositions, demonstrations, lectures
- Electric light and power
- Cylinder phonograph
- Folder ID
- D7802-F
- Microfilm ID
- 16:286
- Document ID
- D7802ZZFZ
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 16