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[QP029-F] Edison United Phonograph Company v. Thomas A. Edison et al.

This folder contains material pertaining to the suit brought by the Edison United Phonograph Co. against Edison, trading under the name of Edison Manufacturing Co., and the Edison Phonograph Works in the New Jersey Court of Chancery. The case was initiated in May 1895 and involved a dispute over foreign sales rights for phonographs. The item at issue was Edison's "kineto-phonograph"—a phonograph attached to a peephole kinetoscope. The selected documents consist of the bill of complaint, an affidavit by Theodore Seligman for the complainant, and affidavits by Edison and Henry Morton for the defense.

Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

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