[D8818ARU], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Thomas Alva Edison, August 18th, 1888
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- Title
- [D8818ARU], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Thomas Alva Edison, August 18th, 1888
- Editor's Notes
- [4 ss typed pages]. Is a document briefing TAE on the progress of numerous items and experiments. Provides a few sentence update under each of the following headings: Printer Experiment; Test Model Phonograph; Phonographs Under Contract; Books on Soap Making &C; Bamboo; Ink Factory (between this heading and the next are the following two paragraphs: "Batchelor has been away since yesterday at the sea shore with his family. He returns on Monday, when I will deliver your message. # I communicated with the Machine Works in regard to the centrifugal machine which they had at Goerck Street, and also in relation to insulation. I had hoped to have had a reply in time to embody the same in this letter, but nothing has come up to present writing. I will advise you just as soon as I hear from them. I also asked them about the castings for new big dynamo."); Asphalt Experiment; Mallory's Iron Analysis; Lettering on Phonographs; Lamp Test; Phonograph Data; Checks. ## At end of signature, adds: "I have just received the following telegram from the Machine Works, and have repeated to Batchelor that portion which relates to his going to Schenectady:- 'Centrifugal Drying machine shall be shipped Monday. Hope to cast new big dynamo early next week. Have new squirter running and have used up all insulation we have on hand; send more. Can Batchelor come up and see machine in operation? Important. EDISON MACHINE WORKS.'"
- Author
- Tate, Alfred Ord
- Recipient
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Mentioned
- Edison Machine Works
- Kennelly, Arthur Edwin
- Batchelor, Charles
- McGowan, Frank
- Ott, Frederick Paul
- Mallory, Walter Seeley
- Wilmowsky, Erwin von
- Payne, Arthur Coyle
- Gladstone, James W
- Serrell, Lemuel Wright
- Date
- 1888-08-18
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- Newspapers, books, other publications
- Testing and quality control
- Cellulose, resins, rubber, and related products
- Dynamos and generators
- Ore milling and separation
- Cylinder phonograph
- Folder ID
- D8818-F
- Microfilm ID
- 122:513
- Document ID
- D8818ARU
- 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 122