[D8442ZBY], Letter from William Symes Andrews to Edison (Thomas A.) Construction Dept, March 2nd, 1884
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[D8442ZBY], Letter from William Symes Andrews to Edison (Thomas A.) Construction Dept, March 2nd, 1884
Editor's Notes
I stated in former letter that capacity of all our plants has been overestimated; gives figures for TAE's "mathematical experts" to review. Need more volts and hence more power from engine when take into acct 15% drop on lines. TAE marg: "You probably don’t catch on to the fact that the 1st investment is the trouble in pushing our biz-- the local people must suffer a continuous loss in operating for their lack of confidence we are fully aware that down east where coal is [cheap] dear 5 percent is the most that should be lost yet we could not start a company if we put this amount of copper in We long ago made a curve on the critical point between the cost of coal & interest in the copper investments. We confid[---] in E lighting universal this rule would be carried out" xxx recommend select dh 21dec06 xxx
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Date
1884-03-02
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
D8442-F
Microfilm ID
74:672
Document ID
D8442ZBY
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University