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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Thomas A. Edison papers, 1850-1947 (bulk 1876-1931).
Personal and business correspondence, laboratory notebooks, record books, scrapbooks, notes and sketches, patents and patent applications, and bookkeeping and legal records; employment records of laboratory and factory employees. Topics include: electricity and magnetism; instrumentation; optics; electrochemistry. Most major scientists and industrialists of his era are represented somewhere in the correspondence. Record group 1 includes: account books, ca. 1869-1954 (ca. 231 linear ft.); document file, 1850-1947 (ca. 237 linear ft.); historical reference file, ca. 1880s-1960s (ca. 45 linear ft.); incoming correspondence, 1913-1933 (ca. 160 linear ft.); legal files, ca. 1879-1956 (ca. 93 linear ft.); letterbooks, 1875-1919; library, ca. 1870s-1950s (ca. 12,196 volumes); motion pictures, ca. 1893-1954 (ca. 272 reels); notebooks, 1865-1939 (ca. 3, 500 volumes); patents, 1861-1944 (ca. 53 linear ft.); photographs, ca. 1850s-1950s; scrapbooks, 1879-1953. Record group 2 includes records of various companies: Edison Botanic Research Corporation, 1925-1963 (45 linear ft.); Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, 1885-1889 (ca. 0.75 linear ft.); Edison Electric Light Company of Europe, Ltd., 1885, 1887-1894 (0.8 linear ft.); Edison Portland Cement Company, 1899-1930 (32 linear ft.); Edison Storage Battery Company, 1901-1932; New York Concentrating Works, 1891-1909 (2.25 linear ft.); Ogden Iron Company, 1865-1919, 1924 (1 linear ft.); Phonograph Artist Files, ca. 1907-1929, 1950s-1980s (ca. 13.3 linear ft.); Phonograph Record Release Sheets, ca. 1915-1929 (ca. 8.3 linear ft.); Sussex County Iron Company, 1865-1895, 1901, 1913 (0.3 linear ft.); Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Moving Picture Division, 1898-1929 (ca. 48 linear ft.); and Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Phonograph Division, 1907-1931 (121 linear ft.). Record group 3 is comprised of personal papers of the following Edison affiliated individuals: Charles Batchelor, laboratory associate and business partner of Edison before the turn of the century; William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, an Englishman who worked with Edison principally on the development of motion pictures; Alexander Elliott, Jr., legal counsel for Edison; Mark M. Jones, created and directed the Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Personnel Service Department; Richard W. Kellow, the Secretary for Thomas A. Edison, Personal Interests, a division of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in the 1910's and 1920s; John Kruesi, instrument maker who made models and apparatus for Edison; William Henry Meadowcroft, Edison's personal secretary; Harry Frederick Miller, who held various positions with Edison and his companies; and Francis Robbins Upton, a mathematician who joined Edison in 1878, working mainly on electric light.
American inventor, holder of 1093 U. S. patents; numerous telegraph patents in 1870s; patented carbon button transmitter for telephone; invented phonograph; patented first practical incandescent lamp and numerous improvements in generators and early electrical equipment; patented first motion picture camera; invented the fluoroscope; patents in fields of magnetic iron ore concentration and cement manufacturing; developed wet alkaline nickel-iron storage battery; developed rubber from goldenrod plants. First organizer of team-based industrial scientific technical research.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Friends and associates.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Library.
Edison Pioneers -- Records and correspondence.
Carbon -- Industrial applications.
Communication in science -- 19th century.
Electric industries -- History.
Electric industries -- United States.
Electric lighting.
Electricity.
Electrochemistry.
Group work in research -- 19th century.
Incandescent lamps -- Technological innovations.
Industrial research -- United States.
Instrumentation.
Iron industry and trade.
Iron ores -- Magnetic properties -- Industrial applications.
Magnetism.
Motion picture cameras -- Technical innovations.
Motion pictures -- Technological innovations.
Optics.
Portland cement manufacturing.
Sound recordings -- Technological innovations.
Science and the arts
Telegraph -- Patents.
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Letter books. aat
Motion pictures (visual work) ftaat
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Personnel records. aat
Photographs. aat
Scrapbooks. aat
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Batchelor, Charles, 1845-1910 -- Records and correspondence.
Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie, 1860-1935 -- Records and correspondence.
Elliott, Alexander, Jr., 1854-1904 -- Records and correspondence.
Jones, Mark M., 1891-1986 -- Records and correspondence.
Kellow, Richard W., 1875-1929 -- Records and correspondence.
Kruesi, John, 1843-1899 -- Records and correspondence.
Meadowcroft, William Henry, 1853-1937 -- Records and correspondence.
Miller, Harry Frederick, 1869-1950 -- Records and correspondence.
Upton, Francis Robbins, 1852-1921 -- Records and correspondence.
Edison Botanic Research Corporation -- Records and correspondence.
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston -- Records and correspondence.
Edison Electric Light Company of Europe, Ltd. -- Records and correspondence.
Edison Portland Cement Company -- Records and correspondence.
Edison Scholarship Contest.
Edison Storage Battery Company -- Records and correspondence.
Motion Picture Patents Company -- Records and correspondence.
Muckers of the Edison Laboratory -- Records and correspondence.
Naval Consulting Board -- Records and correspondence.
New York Concentrating Works -- Records and correspondence.
Ogden Iron Company -- Records and correspondence.
Sussex County Iron Company -- Records and correspondence.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Motion Picture Division -- Records and correspondence.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Phonograph Division -- Records and correspondence.
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