[D7819ZAT], Letter from George Frederick Barker to Thomas Alva Edison, October 23rd, 1878
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- Title
- [D7819ZAT], Letter from George Frederick Barker to Thomas Alva Edison, October 23rd, 1878
- Editor's Notes
- received TAE's of 21st re EL; upset that light will not be ready for his lecture as he consented to do it based on TAE's promise he would have light; why should company object; this has placed Barker "in a position before this community which I would rather lose my right hand than occupy;" discusses Siemens and Sir William Thomson's discussion of transmission of electricity; Thomson & Houston's light
- Author
- Barker, George Frederick
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Mentioned
- Exhibition. Paris Universal (1878)
- Institution of Civil Engineers
- Edison Electric Light Co
- Siemens, Charles William
- Lowrey, Grosvenor Porter
- Thomson, William, (Lord Kelvin)
- Date
- 1878-10-23
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Awards & honors/clubs & societies
- Expositions, demonstrations, lectures
- Electric light and power
- Electrical distribution system
- Folder ID
- D7819-F
- Microfilm ID
- 17:979
- Document ID
- D7819ZAT
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 17
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal