[SB019003c], Clipping, Newark News, January 18th, 1889
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Title
[SB019003c], Clipping, Newark News, January 18th, 1889
Bibliographic Citation
"Was Edison Defrauded?: Said to Have Been Chiselled Out of a Quarter of a Million", Newark News, January 18th, 1889
Editor's Notes
Tomlinson and Gilliland "are said between them to have made $250,000 which should properly have gone to the inventor." When TAE was satisfied that the phonograph was a commercial success, he entrusted Gilliland and Tomlinson, as legal adviser, to promote it. The two would get some shares in the new company. The two were able to convince Mr. Lippincott to buy the patent and reported an offer of $500,000. TAE later found out that is was actually $750,000 and that the two had taken the balance.
Thomas Edison accuses late legal adviser John C. Tomlinson and electrician/inventor Ezra T. Gilliland of cheating him out of $250,000 in the sale of the phonograph
Author
Mentioned
Date
1889-01-18
Type
Folder/Volume ID
SB019-F
Microfilm ID
146:181
Document ID
SB019003c
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University