Object Details
- Local Numbers
- AC0005-0000036-1.tif (AC Scan: p. 1) AC0005-0000036-2.tif (AC Scan, p. 2)
- Author
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
- Names
- Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
- Weston, Edward, Dr.(inventor)
- Collection Creator
- Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
- Topic
- Electric generators
- Dynamos
- Author
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
- See more items in
- Leo H. Baekeland Papers
- Leo H. Baekeland Papers / Series 3: Correspondence / 3.1: Personal correspondence / Edison Thomas A.
- Extent
- 2 Pages (Ink on paper., 11.1" x 8.4".)
- Date
- 21 October 1924
- Container
- Box 9, Folder 3
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Signatures (names)
- Letters (correspondence)
- Typescripts
- Collection Citation
- Leo Baekeland Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Genre/Form
- Signatures (names)
- Letters (correspondence) -- 1920-1930
- Typescripts -- 1920-1930
- Scope and Contents
- Typed on stationery with letterhead, "From the Laboratory / of / Thomas A. Edison, / Orange, N.Y." Edison writes to contest statements made by Baekeland about the efficiency of electrical dynamos built by Dr. Edward Weston, a competitor of Edison's. With Edison's signature and a handwritten postscript: "All this is well known to the Electrical [sic] / world and article is often quoted in / derision."
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1560343810102-1560343810273-1
