[LB051268], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to James W Gladstone, Edison Manufacturing Co, October 8th, 1891
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42 Broad Street, New York. October 8th, 1891. J.W. Gladstone, Esq., Edison Manufacturing Company, Orange, N.J. Dear Sir:- I beg to confirm my telephone message of this afternoon to the effect that the a representative of Messrs. Kennyon, Potter and Company called upon me yesterday and ordered 50 “C’ cells and a special switch board to be shipped to his firm within a week, if possible to have a board made in that time. The first plug on this board is to throw twenty cells in series in circuit; there are to be twenty additional plugs for the remaining twenty cells in series in circuit; there to be twenty additional plugs for the remaining twenty cells. The Board is to be made in Cherry or in hard rubber with Cherry box, and we are to provide a pole changed and cable for connection between the battery and the board. There will be two binding posts on this board to receive the terminals of the circuits leading to the instruments used by the circuit surgeon. You should communicate at once with Messrs. Kennyon Potter & Company, stating that we have received this order that it is having our best attention, and asking them if they will kindly confirm it in ordinary course. I think it might be well to ask them what kind of terminals are attached to the leads which will be used so that we may know whether our binding posts should have clamp knots mats or eye holes to receive pin connectors. Please explain to them that our cells will deliver 4 amperes of current, and it is therefore unnecessary to provide means for throwing them into multipolar arc. Yours truly, A.O. Tate