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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

Subject

International business operations

Patents

Telephone

Folder ID

LB005-F

Microfilm ID

80:203

Document ID

LB005539B

URL

https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB005539B

Rights

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

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)