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[D8043ZAX], Letter from American Bell Telephone Co, Theodore Newton Vail to Thomas Alva Edison, December 18th, 1880

Title: [D8043ZAX], Letter from American Bell Telephone Co, Theodore Newton Vail to Thomas Alva Edison, December 18th, 1880
Editor's Notes: Bell co. asks: since buttons always breaking & need increasing can't you cut price? <"When you come to NYork again come to Menlo Park after you have seen how they are made & you think the price too great will reduce it A carbon button is never{trip. undrl.} broken in a well made transmitter. They will last a century. putting a fraigle button in a cracked holder made by a botch will of course break them">
Author: American Bell Telephone Co; Vail, Theodore Newton
Recipient: Edison, Thomas Alva
Date: 1880-12-18
Type: Letter
Subject: Carbon, coal, glass, ceramics; Telephone
Folder ID: D8043-F
Microfilm ID: 55:664
Document ID: D8043ZAX
URL: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/D8043ZAX
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 55

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