[SB019025b], Clipping, Chicago Tribune, May 12th, 1889
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- Title
- [SB019025b], Clipping, Chicago Tribune, May 12th, 1889
- Bibliographic Citation
- "Edison Says He Was Swindled", Chicago Tribune, May 12th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- "Edison Says He Was Swindled", Chicago Tribune. A bill in equity was today led by TAE against Gilliland and Tomlinson. TAE wants the the court to compel the two to make an "accounting to him and reveal the facts about the negotiation of the stock of the phonograph company and a contract for the sale and use of the invention." TAE says he was told by the two that they could sell the contract for $250,000. Eventually, $1.2 million of phonograph stock was sold for $500,000, Gilliland and Tomlinson received $250,000, according to TAE.
- 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
- Chicago Tribune
- Mentioned
- American Bell Telephone Co
- Edison Phonograph Co
- Gilliland, Ezra Torrance
- Tomlinson, John Canfield
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Date
- 1889-05-12
- Type
- Clipping
- Folder ID
- SB019-F
- Microfilm ID
- 146:191
- Document ID
- SB019025b
- 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