N-86-03-18 (1886)
Item
- Title
- N-86-03-18 (1886)
- Description
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This notebook covers the period March 1886. All of the entries are by Edison and by Mina Edison, whose name also appears as a witness. Most of the notes by Mina Edison deal with lamp experiments. A few concern an electric engine and a hearing aid. The notes and drawings by Edison pertain to magnetism, the search for a new form of energy he called XYZ, and the direct conversion of heat into electricity. Also included is material relating to lamp experiments, the phonoplex, a balloon telegraph, a process to turn natural gas into lampblack for ink, a cash carrier system, a spectroscope design, a storage battery, a hearing aid, and a cotton picker. The book contains 288 numbered pages.
Blank pages: 110-Ill, 256-275, 282, 285.
Missing page numbers: 283-284.
- Identifier
- N314-N
- Has Format
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/taepnotebook-N314/manifest.json
- Is Part Of
- Notebook Series -- Fort Myers Notebooks
- Has Version
- Item Set N314-F
- Type
- Notebook
- Rights
- Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.