[D8305Z], Letter from G W Drewke to Thomas Alva Edison, November 24th, 1883
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- Title
- [D8305Z], Letter from G W Drewke to Thomas Alva Edison, November 24th, 1883
- Editor's Notes
- asks TAE to make a machine that can kill cotton worms by electricity, "As the cotton worm is doing a great deal of harm every year, and as every means to kill the same have failed," suggests a battery with copper wires which man could carry through fields, touching plants # TAE marg: "Your suggestion is practicable an induction coil throwing a spark of 1/2 inch with 2 cells of battery the whaole made potable, with two brushes of wires, would do the work I have no time to experiment"
- Author
- Drewke, G W
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1883-11-24
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- D8305-F
- Microfilm ID
- 64:435
- Document ID
- D8305Z
- 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 64