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A SELECTIVE MICROFILM EDITION

PART I (1850-1878)

Thomas E. Jeffrey Microfilm Editor and Associate Editor

Paul B. Israel

Susan Schultz Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editors: Research Associates: Toby Appel Robert Rosenberg Keith A. Nier W. Bemard Carlson Andre Millard

Student Assistants

John Deasey Pamela Kwiatkowski Leonard De Graaf Joseph P. Sullivan David Fowler

Barbara B. Tomblin Leonard S. Reich, Associate Director and Associate Editor Reese V. Jenkins, Director and Editor

Sponsors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site New Jersey Historical Commission Smithsonian Institution

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BOARD OF SPONSORS

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Edward J. Bloustein Roy W. Weaver T. Alexander Pond Edward J. Pershey Tilden G. Edelstein William Binnewies Richard P. McCormick Lynn Wightman James Kirby Martin Elizabeth Albro

New Jersey Historical Commission Smithsonian Institution Bernard Bush Brooke Hindle Howard Green Bernard Finn

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

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CORPORATE ASSOCIATES

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FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS

PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Charles Edison Fund

The Hyde and Watson Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

PUBLIC FOUNDATIONS

National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities

PRIVATE CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

Alabama Power Company

Amerada Hess Corporation

AT&T

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies Battelle Memorial Institute Foundation

The Boston Edison Foundation

Cabot Corporation Foundation

Carolina Power and Light Company Consumers Power Company

Corning Glass Works Foundation

Duke Power Company

Edison Electric Institute

Exxon Corporation

General Electric Foundation

Gould Inc. Foundation

Gulf States Utilities Company

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers lowa Power and Light Company

Mr. and Mrs, Stanley H. Katz

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

McGraw-Edison Company

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Minnesota Power

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New York State Electric & Gas Corporation

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Philadelphia Electric Company

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RCA Corporation

Robert Bosch GmbH

Savannah Electric and Power Company

Schering Plough Foundation

Texas Utilities Company

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Transamerica Delaval Inc.

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PUBLICATION AND MICROFILM COPYING RESTRICTIONS

Reel duplication of the whole or of any part of this film is prohibited, in fieu of transcripts, however, enlarged photocopies of selected items contained on these reels may be made in order to facilitate research.

A Note on the Sources

The pages which were microfilmed for this collection are in generally good condition in the Original. There are some pages, however, which due to age are lighter than normal. Additionally, because some volumes are very large and have been bound tightly and cannot be un- bound, there are intermittent occurrences of slight dis- tortion of the edges of a small percentage of the pages. We have made every technical effort to ensure complete legibility of each and every page.

MISCELLANEOUS SHOP AND LABORATORY NOTEBOOKS

The fifteen books in this series cover the years 1870-1880. All but two relate to Edison's work in Newark (1870-1876). The Newark books consist primarily of experimental notes and drawings on telegraphy. There are also mechanics' drawings for the production of telegraph equipment at the Newark shops, miscellaneous financial records, and documents relating to the telegraph industry. Among the latter are newspaper clippings on business and technological matters, forms used by the telegraph companies, and price lists and advertising materials. These books also contain some material on the electric pen, etheric force, and other electrical technologies. The final two books in this series date from the Menlo Park period. One consists of pasted-in notes and drawings on electric lighting covering the period October 1877 - December 1880. The other contains notes and acoustic recordings from an investigation of noise on the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad during the summer of 1878, along with notes and drawings of the aurophone and megaphone. The following books comprise this series:

Cat. 298 (Disbound Scrapbook, 1870-1871) Cat. 30,094 (Bound Notebook, 1871-1875)

Cat. 297 (Disbound Scrapbook, 1871-1875) Cat. 30,099 (Bound Notebook, ca. 1872-1874)

Cat. 1176 (Bound Notebook, 1873-1874) Cat. 299 (Bound Scrapbook, 1873)

Cat. 1175 (Bound Notebook, 1873-1874) Cat. 1171 (Bound Notebook, 1873-1874) Cat. 1170 (Bound Notebook, 1873-1877) Cat. 1168 (Bound Scrapbook, 1874-1876)

Cat. 30,095 (Bound Notebook, 1874-1875) Cat. 1169 (Bound Notebook, 1875-1876) Cat. 30,100 (Scrapbook Fragment, 1875)

Cat. 1146 (Bound Scrapbook, 1877-1880)

Cat. 30,101 (Bound Notebook, 1878)

Laboratory Scrapbook, Cat. 298

This scrapbook consists primarily of drawings and contains only a few dated items, covering the period July 1870-September 1871. Some of the drawings are by Edison; others were probably done by draftsmen and mechanics at the American Telegraph Works. The drawings are mostly of telegraph apparatus and range from formal full-scale drafts to rough sketches on scraps of paper. Some of the drawings have been cut out as patterns, possibly for use in the construction of apparatus. There is also a plan of a building and numerous clippings of patent specifications and drawings from the reports of the patent commissioner between 1857 and 1859. (Additional clippings for 1860-1868 can be found in Cat. 1177, Miscellaneous Scrapbook Series.) There is also some business-related material, including advertising circulars, two payroll accounts for January and February 1871, and one account sheet for the firm of Edison & Unger, dated September 13, 1871. The cover is marked "'S."

The book contains 215 numbered pages. It has been disbound, and most items have been removed from their scrapbook pages to allow for filming. The scrapbook page number has been filmed below each document.

Blank pages not filmed: 41-42, 136, 144-157, 161, 164-165, 168-171, 174-175, 178-181, 184-185, 188-192, 194-195, 197-215,

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