[D8704AER], Letter from P K Stern to Thomas Alva Edison, November 10th, 1887
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Title
[D8704AER], Letter from P K Stern to Thomas Alva Edison, November 10th, 1887
Editor's Notes
[Letterhead: Alfred Benjamin & Co.] Would like to meet you to discuss electric light; in Feb. 1880 was experimenting with incandescent filaments of carbon in solid mediums and wrote you for specimens of carbonized paper filaments, which you sent; I succeeded in constructing suitable [?] apparatus and had some encouraging results; was granted a patent in 1885 for "an indestructable electric lamp"; have not until now been able to pursue the matter because I'm busy in Toronto (my native city) with an electrical protection system I patented in Canada and the U.S.; called at your office on Wall St, but was advised to write you at Orange for an interview. [TAE Marg.: "Tate=Tell him I am as busy fixing new Laboratory & that over 30 people come to see me every day taking up nearly my whole time that I have been compelled to stop doing business until I get my Laboratory in order. Tate: This is a good reply to others who want to take my time with their own business."]
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Date
1887-11-10
Type
Folder/Volume ID
D8704-F
Microfilm ID
119:298
Document ID
D8704AER
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University