[LB005539B], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edward Hibberd Johnson, January 14th, 1880
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- Title
- [LB005539B], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Edward Hibberd Johnson, January 14th, 1880
- Editor's Notes
- You are mistaken abou t the delay of switchboard [as?] they have all left Menlo Park within 3 days of their arrival from Bergman's excepting two which we kept back & tested inspectors with-- I cannot get men in New York worth anything am compelled to teach them here-- I send two on Saturday with Time's clockworks-- These are not clockworks but "Pen" engines: I could not make clockworks go they were too [bottom of page illegible and page 3 was not copied] being applied, or if set in motion by abnormal means, its stoppage would cause [pressure?]-- Is a string telehone a graph?-- Is the [spar?] vessel a telegraph?-- Is it telegraphic communicaiton for one man to `holler' across a ten-acre-lot to another man? If so, then the Post Office has got you-- Batchelor is having made the four diaphragm instrument-- We shall also send yo one of the paper speaker telephones made by Murray We are also making you [some?] telephones to work by [?] instead of Chalk.-- [He] will also attend to the [] request relating to Insts experiments etc.-- The first ater-chalks that we made are as loud [] we have wet them [] this evidently shows [as?] you truly remark that [if?] the chalk is the good chalk it is good for all time" if occasionally wet.
- Author
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Recipient
- Johnson, Edward Hibberd
- Mentioned
- Great Britain. Parliament
- Seymour, James M, Jr
- Gregory, William H
- Batchelor, Charles
- Gibson, J H
- Murray, Joseph Thomas
- Bergmann, Sigmund
- Date
- 1880-01-14
- Type
- Letter
- Folder ID
- LB005-F
- Microfilm ID
- 80:203
- Document ID
- LB005539B
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 80
- Item sets
- [LB005-F] LB-005 (1879-1880)