[N317019], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, April 6th, 1886
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- Title
- [N317019], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, April 6th, 1886
- Editor's Notes
- p. 19 "Arc Light Carbons-- Before baking make sheets of pottery mixture & roll outside covering in carbon-- Make mixtures so as to contraction will be same as Carbon-- put it on very thin perhaps 2 or 3 exceedingly thin 1/1000 coats best-- Alumina & KO--MgO KO clays Grasshopper battery-- Make the size of the cells as small as possible so as to prevent slow discharge by large surface Iridisome points on vibrator so no fine points to follow up & prevent instantaneous discharge"; p. 21 Lamp-- Make a mouse mill like Sir Wm Ts or perhaps that gas lighter which I have in Lab run by motor will answer Try Counter Static Expmts. Speaking tube System Try greatest distance with inch gas pipe diaphragm on ends & 35 lbs pressure sqr inch intube-- try lead pipe 1/4 inside dia-- also glass tubes 1/4 dia inside-- These will pbly carry farther onacct smoothness but them end to end & pour sealing wax to make joint-- Carry pressure high as possible on gas or lead pipe expmts" (drawing)
- Author
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1886-04-06
- Type
- Technical Note
- Folder ID
- N317-F
- Microfilm ID
- 43:12
- Document ID
- N317019
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 43
- Item sets
- [N317-F] N-86-04-03.3 (1886)