[LB055226], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Charles Summer Wirt, January 22nd, 1892

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Title

[LB055226], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Charles Summer Wirt, January 22nd, 1892

Date

1892-01-22

Type

Folder/Volume ID

LB055-F

Microfilm ID

143:45

Document ID

LB055226

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
 

Transcription

Jan. 22, 1892.
Charles Wirt, Esq.,
The Electrical Supply Co.,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Sir:-
Your letter of 12th instant was duly received, and in compliance with the request contained therein I take much pleasure in sending to you by this mail, under separate cover, a large panel portrait of Mr. Edison, which I have had him dedicate to yourself.
The hard rubber shells for use in connection with the phonograph, which I referred to in my previous letter, are shells made of hard rubber that fit over his tie brass mandrail, the phonograph cylinder in turn fitting over the shell. In practice these shells were found efficacious in preventing the cracking or cylinders from the cause mentioned by you. Their manufacture has been abandoned, however, for the reason stated in my last letter. The cylinders used with those shells were of a special pattern, as the ordinary blanks would not answer.
Yours very truly,
A. O. Tate
Private Sec'y.
M.
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