[LB063343], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Richard Rogers Bowker, January 26th, 1899
https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB063343
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Jany 26th, 1899 R.R. Bowker Esq. Delano and Elm Street New York My Dear Bowker:- In reply to your favor of the 24th inst, I beg to state that of course I want all the criticism possible. With new water[?] you leave the months reading standing until the next month after reading the customer can see what his bill is. If by any [illegible] the mercury should go in the check bottle it can be refilled and placed in a tube and read off directly. The last beam meters were constructed with mercury electrodes, but you have [illegible] with meters with mechanism can ever be made so [illegible] as those without. Verification is absolute in the meter I now [illegible]. I also have an [illegible] meter which instead of showing a mercury column shown reading on a six inch [illegible] you have mechanism. Yours very truly