[SB019025a], Clipping, Newark News, May 13th, 1889
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- Title
- [SB019025a], Clipping, Newark News, May 13th, 1889
- Bibliographic Citation
- "Sued by Inventor Edison", Newark News, May 13th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- "Sued by Inventor Edison", Newark News. TAE began his suit in equity against Gilliland and Tomlinson. The article briefly describes how TAE and Gilliland and Tomlinson began working. The two have been charged with receiving $250,000 from the sale of the phonograph for persuading TAE to sell the patent "at a price lower than the value of the invention."
- 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; he sues for the sum
- Author
- Newark News
- Mentioned
- Eaton and Lewis
- Gilliland, Ezra Torrance
- Ingersoll, Robert Green
- Tomlinson, John Canfield
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1889-05-13
- Type
- Clipping
- Folder ID
- SB019-F
- Microfilm ID
- 146:191
- Document ID
- SB019025a
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 146
- Item sets
- [SB019-F] Cat. 1160