[MB011], Agreement, Western Union, Thomas Alva Edison, May 31st, 1878
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Title
[MB011], Agreement, Western Union, Thomas Alva Edison, May 31st, 1878
Editor's Notes
agreement with WU re telephone and acoustic patents; TAE assigns all rights in US patents in exchange for $6,000 per year during seventeen years from 1 June 1878, payments to be made on first and fifteenth of each month; future inventions in telephones will be assigned with only reimbursement of costs of patenting not to exceed $250 each; includes settlement of terms of 22 March 1877 agreement; Lowrey as atty; all carbon button telephones to be labeled as Edison Carbon Telephone; this supersedes memo of agreement between TAE and Norvin Green as pres of WU dated 4/29/78
Author
Mentioned
Date
1878-05-31
Type
Folder/Volume ID
MB02-F
Microfilm ID
92:269
Document ID
MB011
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University