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[D7937ZCP], Letter from Josiah Custer Reiff to Thomas Alva Edison, September 23rd, 1879

Title: [D7937ZCP], Letter from Josiah Custer Reiff to Thomas Alva Edison, September 23rd, 1879
Editor's Notes: "I learned today who made your carbon transmitter work. I thought you might like to know, in as much as you thought you did it yourself! Ashley told a party today the carbon telephone of the Prof of Quadruplicity would not work until Henry Bentley took hold of it & made it practical--This I thought too good to keep....."; Date from docket, stamp, postmark
Author: Reiff, Josiah Custer
Recipient: Edison, Thomas Alva
Mentioned: Bentley, Henry; Ashley, James Nye
Date: 1879-09-23
Type: Letter
Subject: Carbon, coal, glass, ceramics; Multiple telegraphy (duplex, quadruplex); Telephone
Folder ID: D7937-F
Microfilm ID: 52:111
Document ID: D7937ZCP
URL: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/D7937ZCP
Rights: Thomas Edison National Historical Park
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 52

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