Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention

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205 notes Sources and Abbreviations With few exceptions, all sources cited in the chapter notes are in the archive at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey , and scanned images are in the Thomas A. Edison Papers Digital Edition (http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital.htm). Many of these documents have also been included in the Edison Papers book edition, The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. We have used the following abbreviations to indicate archive, online, and book edition locations: Cat. Catalog, cited by catalog number and page number(s) when available (e.g., Cat. 1304:2) DF Document File, cited by year and folder title (e.g., DF 1878, “Electric Light—General”) LB Letterbook, cited by letterbook and page number(s) (e.g., LB-003:394) N Standard-size notebook, cited by notebook and page number(s) (e.g., N-78-11-22:13–17) PN Pocket notebook, cited by notebook number and entry date (e.g., PN-81-01-19: February 5, 1881) TAE Thomas Alva Edison (e.g., TAE to William Wallace) TAEB TAE book edition documents, cited by document number in published volume (e.g., TAEB 1433); in some instances TAEB is followed by the volume number and a specific reference to something other than a document (e.g. TAEB, vol. 4, introduction to chapter 4). TAED TAE online documents, cited by document ID (e.g., TAED D7819G) 206 Notes to Pages 2–3 TENHP Thomas Edison National Historical Park, Archives Vol. 16 Edison’s compiled notebook volume 16, cited with page number(s) (e.g., Vol. 16:6) Also cited from the archive are Special Collection items (e.g., Batchelor Collection) and others that are self-explanatory (e.g., book references). For brevity, the citations in Chapter 6 from Mott’s journals (N-80-30-14 and N-80-07-10) give only Mott’s name and the journal entry date. Letters in the Document File omit the folder title because correspondence has been indexed by the Thomas A. Edison Papers and is accessible by date, author, and recipient. Occasionally a note will refer to a run of pages in a volume, such as a notebook. In these cases we use the folder or volume ID followed by the image numbers for those pages we have cited; for example, in the citation N-80-01-26:70–128 (TAED N059, images 35–133), the volume ID is N059. In a few instances, such as testimony, we use a document ID followed by image number(s) to direct the reader to a specific part of the document; for example, in the citation Edison’s testimony, p. 29, Edison v. Maxim v. Swan, Patent Interferences, Record Group 241, National Archives and Records Service (TAED W100DII, image 45), the full testimony is document ID W100DII and p. 29 is on image 45. To view the online document images go to http://edison.rutgers.edu/ singldoc.htm and type the document ID, such as D7819G, in the field labeled Document ID. References to folders such as 1878 “Electric Light— General” (TAED D7819), or to an individual volume, such as the Batchelor Scrapbook 1240 (TAED MBSB1), can be seen by typing the TAED folder/ volume ID in the Folder/Volume ID box. In the book edition we have cited documents from the following volumes : Volume 4 (documents 1164–1651), Volume 5 (1652–2073), and Volume 6 (2074–2417). Chapter One: “A Big Bonanza” 1. Cat. 1240, item 470 (TAED MBSB10470X). 2. See TAEB, vol. 4, introduction to chap. 4; Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley, 1998), 161–64; Matthew Josephson , Edison: A Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), 175; Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck (New York: Seaview Books, 1979), 115. Notes to Pages 4–15 207 3. Charles Batchelor, undated memoir (c. 1905) on electric light, Batchelor Collection (TAED MB290; TAEB, vol. 4, app. 2). 4. Vol. 16:6 (TAED NV16006; TAEB 1412). 5. Quoted in The Mail, September 10, 1878, Cat. 1241 (TAED SB032119a). 6. TAED NM014F (TAEB 1424), NM014G, NV16009, NM014H, NV16010; and MBN002069 (TAEB1426). 7. “Edison’s Electric Light,” New York Sun, October 20, 1878, Cat. 1241, item 963 (TAED MBSB20963). 8. TAE to William Wallace, September 13, 1878 (TAED D7819G; TAEB 1433). 9. Caveat for Electric Light Spirals, September 10–13, 1878, “Experimental Researches,” Vol. 5, Cat. 997:49–63 (TAED NE1695049; TAEB 1427). 10...