[D8959AFN], Letter from George Edward Gouraud to Thomas Alva Edison, October 18th, 1889
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[D8959AFN], Letter from George Edward Gouraud to Thomas Alva Edison, October 18th, 1889
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Hand-machines. Your cable says you do not make these, although I understood you to say that you did. In any case, may state that the Graphophone people make the ones I explained to you, and I have just seen a gentleman who has one and uses it for dictating his letters while traveling in the train. He speaks of it in the highest terms. He also uses it when traveling for grapho-grams which he mails to his family. I certainly think you ought to have this form of machine for the Phonograph##Mailing-grams. I hope you will make some of these on the plan of the Grapho-gram. They are using a very simple, and so far as it goes, a very satisfactory gram in a stiff paste-board box that carries it all right, and people are constantly coming here with them thinking they can find a Graphophone here upon which to hear them reproduced. Our grams break too easily in the mailing, besides the expense, although of course I am aware they are not intended for mailing purposes. Kindly write me with respect to the above, and whenever you adapt anything please make it somebody's business to send me a gram by every mail as it is quite the most effective thing we have to show. The only one I have received of the kind, seen got damaged in putting in and out of the box; besides the method of closing the box was, as you yourself expressed the opinion, too troublesome to be practical. It would do well enough between Agents, but hardly between the public. At any rate you said you could easily simplify that and you no doubt will; but until you do make some thing better I wish you would send me one of those by every mail with some good talk on it.##Slipping-grams. All the last grams sent have been most unsatisfactory. They slip badly and certainly warp without any provocation. Batchlor explains that those sent me were "too fresh," and "not sufficiently seasoned." If this was so, why were they sent? Please see that only the best is sent me in the the future.
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1889-10-18
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D8959-F
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127:963
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D8959AFN
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University