[X098A034], Telegram from Thomas Alva Edison to William Joseph Hammer, May 20th, 1889
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- Title
- [X098A034], Telegram from Thomas Alva Edison to William Joseph Hammer, May 20th, 1889
- Editor's Notes
- Company to which sold phonograph negotiated at same time for purchase of Graphophone whos owners knw that if both interests were une one control and choice of machines left impartially [hole in paper] competition their instrument would be ignore and their fact[ory] [hole in paper] great loss Consequently therefore to save themselves they exacte[d from pur]chasing company a fixed sum on each phonograph not as royalty but [hole in paper]ration for a [com]mercial transaction and to make up the loss they anticipated in combin[ing?] [inven]tors statement not correct regarding wax graphophones have been [damaged paper] everywhere for want of utility whole thing absolutely dead [ju]st as they expected Edison
- Supplied day
- Author
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Recipient
- Hammer, William Joseph
- Date
- 1889-05-20
- Type
- Telegram
- Folder ID
- X098A-F
- Document ID
- X098A034
- Rights
- NMAH Archives Center
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Item sets
- [X098A-F] Correspondence (1879-1930)