Archives Center, National Museum of American History
William J. Hammer Collection
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
NMAH.AC.0069
Archival Resource Key
36 Cubic feet
124 boxes, 3 map-folders
circa 1847-1989
Original documents and papers generated by William J. Hammer and by various companies and individuals with whom he was associated. Includes material related to the research and inventions of Edison, Bell, Tesla, the Curies, etc.
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William J. Hammer Collection
Biography of William J. Hammer
William Joseph Hammer, assistant to Thomas Edison and a consulting electrical engineer, was born at Cressona, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1858, and died March 24, 1934. His parents were Martha Augusta Bech (1827-1861) and William Alexander Hammer (1827-1895). He attended private and public schools in Newark, New Jersey, and university and technical school lectures abroad.
On January 3, 1894, Hammer married Alice Maud White in Cleveland, Ohio. They had one daughter, Mabel (Mrs. Thomas Cleveland Asheton). Alice Hammer died in 1906.
In 1878 Hammer became an assistant to Edward Weston of the Weston Malleable Nickel Company. In December 1879 he began his duties as laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison at Menlo Park, New Jersey. He assisted in experiments on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, ore separator, electric lighting, and other developing inventions. However, he worked primarily on the incandescent electric lamp and was put in charge of tests and records on that device. In 1880 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Edison Lamp Works. In this first year, the plant under general manager Francis Upton, turned out 50,000 lamps. According to Edison, Hammer was "a pioneer of Incandescent Electric Lighting"! (Hammer's memoranda and notes, Series 2).
In 1881 Edison sent Hammer to London as Chief Engineer of the English Electric Light Co. In association with E. H. Johnson, general manager, Hammer constructed the Holborn Viaduct Central Electric Light Station in London. This plant included three, thirty-ton "Jumbo" steam-powered dynamos (generators), and operated 3,000 incandescent lamps. Holborn was the first central station ever constructed for incandescent electric lighting. Hammer began its operation on January 12, 1882, by lighting the Holborn Viaduct.
In 1882 Hammer also installed a large isolated lighting plant containing twelve Edison dynamos at the Crystal Palace Electric Exposition and the Edison Exhibit at the Paris Electrical Exposition.
At this time Hammer also designed and built the first electric sign. The sign spelled the name "Edison" in electric lights, and was operated by a hand controlled commutator and a large lever snap switch. It was erected over the organ in the Crystal Palace concert hall.
In 1883 Hammer became Chief Engineer for the German Edison Company (Deutsche Edison Gesellschaft), later known as Allegemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft. Hammer laid out and supervised the installations of all Edison plants in Germany. While in Berlin he invented the automatic motor-driven "flashing" electric lamp sign. The sign, which flashed "Edison" letter by letter and as a whole, was placed on the Edison Pavilion at the Berlin Health Exposition in 1883.
On his return to the United States in 1884, Hammer took charge of some of Edison's exhibits, including Edison's personal exhibit, at the International Electrical Exhibition held under the authority of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. There he built the first flashing "Column of Light." He also became confidential assistant to E. R. Johnson, president of the parent Edison Electric Light Company. Together with Johnson and Frank J. Sprague, he became an incorporator of the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor company. He also was elected a trustee and the company's first secretary.
Hammer installed an all-electric house at Newark, New Jersey in 1884 and he devised various electrical devices and contrivances for an unusual party for friends and colleagues. (See "Electrical Diablerie" beginning on page 6).
At the end of 1884 Hammer became chief inspector of central stations of the parent Edison Electric Light Company. For over two years he made financial, mechanical, and electrical reports on the various stations throughout the United States. During 1886-87 he was chief engineer and general manager of the Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company. He also acted as contractor for the company. He laid $140,000 of underground tubing and installed Sprague Electric Motors.
In 1888, acting as an independent engineer, he was placed in charge of completing the 8,000 light plant of the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St.Augustine Florida. At the time this was the largest isolated incandescent lighting plant ever constructed. Also in 1888 Hammer was appointed consulting electrical engineer to the Cincinati Centennial Expostition, and as a contractor designed and installed over $40,000 worth of electrical effects.
Hammer was appointed Edison's personal representative remarked, "There are a lot of crowned heads in the Edison business. How many of them am I subservient to?" Mr. Edison answered "You take no instructions except from Thomas A. Edison." Hammer asked "What are your instructions?" Mr. Edison replied, 'Hammer, I haven't any. Go and make a success of it.' In Paris he set up and operated all of Edison's inventions, which embraced nineteen departments and covered 9,800 square feet of space. He also built a huge Edison lamp forty-five feet high employing 20,000 lamps. Edison remarked, 'He had entire charge of my exhibit at the Paris Exposition, which was very successful." This was the largest individual exhibit at the Exposition, costing $100,000. Mr. Edison replied, "I want you to go right out and have a card engraved William J. Hammer, Representative of Thomas A. Edison. You are the only representative I have here," and he complimented him on his work adding, "The French government will do something handsome for you for your work." Hammer replied that he would not raise his hand to get it and did not believe in giving such honors to people who seek them. Mr. Edison said, "You are wrong. You are a young man and such things are valuable. At any rate if there's anyone in this exhibition who deserves recognition, you do, and I'm going to see you get it' (Hammer's memoranda and notes, Series 2). Thirty-four years later, in 1925, through the personal influence of Edison, Hammer was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
In 1890 Hammer returned to the United States and opened an office as a consulting electrical engineer. He was in private practice until 1925, making reports, conducting tests, and giving expert testimony in patent suits.
On January 31, 1890, Hammer formed the Franklin Experimental Club of Newark where boys could come and carry on experiments, build apparatus, and listen to lectures. Hammer equipped the laboratory at his own expense. One side was an electrical laboratory and the other a chemical laboratory. About forty-five boys joined. Each boy had a key to the club and a section of a bench with his own drawer for keeping notes, tools, and other equipment. In 1892 the structure was destroyed by fire from a saloon next door, ending Hammer's plans for a large and useful institution.
In 1896 Hammer was elected president of the National Conference of Standard Electrical Rules, which prepared and promulgated the "National Electric Code."
In 1902 in Paris, Hammer visited Pierre and Marie Curie, the discoverers of radium and polonium. They gave him nine tubes of radium and one of polonium to bring back to the United States. He also acquired some sulphide of zinc, with which he mixed radium carbonates, producing a beautifully luminous powder. This was the first radium-luminous material ever made. By mixing the powder with Damar varnish he produced the first radium-luminous paint. He was also the first person to make colored (and white) luminous materials. In 1907 he invented and patented a process for producing colored phosphorescent materials by combining phosphorescent and fluorescent substances.
Back in the United States in the fall of 1902 and into 1903, Hammer applied his radium-luminous materials to thirty different objects: luminous dials for clocks and watches, toys, artificial flowers, radium luminous gun sights, taps and pulls for lamp sockets, switches, keyholes, push buttons, telephone transmitters, poison bottle labels, a small plaster figure, push pins, and writing implements among others. He did not patent the invention due to the scarcity and high cost of radium, but later in an important suit involving foreign and American patents of radium-luminous materials, his testimony and that of other noted scientists and professionals of the day who had visited his home and laboratory proved that his work completely anticipated that of all inventors both in the United States and abroad. In 1902 he was one of the first persons to be burned with radium.
Hammer gave eighty-eight lectures on the Curies' work and on radium and radioactive substances. He wrote the first book published on radium,
Radium and other Radioactive Substances, 1903. Hammer proposed and used radium for cancer and tumor treatment, successfully treating and curing a tumor on his own hand in July 1903. Tie also supplied several hospitals with radioactive water he had made and conducted extensive experiments with x-rays, cathode-rays, radium-rays, ultraviolet lights, phosphorescence, fluorescence, and cold-light. He was probably the first to suggest many wartime uses for radium-luminous materials, such as airplanes, instruments, markers, barbed-wire, and landing fields.
Hammer also did important work with selenium, a nonmetallic element that resembles sulphur and tellurium chemically. It is obtained chiefly as a by-product in copper refining, and occurs in allotropic forms. A grey stable form varies in electrical conductivity depending on the intensity of its illumination and is used in electronic devices. Hammer invented selenium cells and apparatus, and suggested industrial uses for selenium and other light-sensitive cells.
In 1886 Hammer devised a system for automatically controlling street and other lights by use of a selenium cell. In 1892 he designed a torpedo that could be steered by searchlight and selenium cell. In the early 1900s he suggested many other uses for "light" cells, including burglar alarms, dynamo control, buoy, railroad signaling, automatic gun firing, transmission of music, stethoscope recorder, automatic operating shutters, automatic boiler feed, snow recorder, and electric motor control.
At the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 Hammer was Chairman of the Jury for Telegraphy, Telephony, and Wireless. He was also a member of the "Departmental" Jury ("Applied Science: Electricity") and of the committee appointed to organize the International Electrical Congress at St. Louis in 1904.
In 1906 Hammer received the "Elliott Cresson" gold medal from the Franklin Institute for his "Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps," accumulated over thirty-four years. This collection received a special silver medal at the International Electrical Exposition at the Crystal Palace, London, England, in 1882, and "the Grand Prize" at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904.
During the First World war Hammer served as a major on the General Staff of the, Army War College, Washington, D.C., where he was attached to the Inventions Section of the War Plans Division and later to the operations Division at the war Department in charge of electrical and aeronautical war inventions. He did special work at the U.S. Patent office, marking and delaying patents that might be useful to the enemy and served on the Advisory Board of Experts attached to the Alien Property Commission. He was elected Historian general of the Military order of the World War (1926-1928) and was a member of the Society of American Military Engineers.
Hammer was an early aeronautics enthusiast and became the owner of one of the first airplanes sold in the United States to an individual. Even in his last few years of his life, Hammer's interest in airplanes did not wane. In 1931, by the permission of the Secretary of the -Navy, Hammer made a twelve-hour flight in the Los Angeles dirigible from the Lakehurst, New Jersey airdrome along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to New York, flying over New York City at night.
Hammer served on numerous committees. In 1916 he was a member of a special committee, appointed by the Aeronautical Society of America. one of his responsibilities on this committee was to recommend methods for the formation of a reserve force of civilian aviators for the Army. At the start of World War I, Hammer was appointed chairman of a committee on camouflage by the Aeronautical Society. During the war, he flew airplanes and tested sound devices and was also among the first five selected out of thousands for the dissemination of propaganda into many countries. He also examined documents and papers captured from spies and prisoners of war to see if these material contained any technical matter of value to the U. S. Army.
Hammer traveled extensively as a delegate of the Military Order of World War I. For example, in 1922 he attended the aeronautical Congress and Flying Meet in Detroit, Michigan. In the same year he also attended Immigration Conferences of the National Civic Federation in New York.
Between 1922 and 1928 Hammer intensified his efforts in collecting and organizing autographed portraits of eminent scientific men, a project he had been working on for over forty-five years. Tie displayed many of these portraits with his Historical Collection of Incandescent Electrical Lamps in -his New York home. At this time he also prepared an elaborate bibliography on selenium and its industrial and scientific applications.
Major William Joseph Hammer, described by Edison as "my most valuable assistant at Menlo Park" died of pneumonia March 24, 1934.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series.
Series 1: William J. Hammer Papers, 1851-1957
Series 2: Edisonia, 1847-1960
Series 3: Reference Materials, 1870-1989
Series 4: Photographs, 1880-1925
Scope and Contents
This collection includes original documents and papers generated by Hammer and by various companies and individuals and various secondary sources assembled by Hammer between 1874 and 1934. Hammer's lifelong association with the foremost scientists of his day -- Edison, Bell, Maxim, the Curies, the Wright brothers, and others - afforded him a unique opportunity to collect materials about the development of science along many lines.
This collection, which includes rare historical, scientific, and research materials, was donated by the International Business Machine Corporation to the Museum of History and Technology in 1962 and held by the Division of Electricity. In 1983 it was transferred to the -Archives Center. The collection was badly disorganized when received and contained many fragile documents in poor condition. The collection was organized and arranged as reflected in this register.
The collection documents in photographs, manuscripts, notes, books, pamphlets, and excerpts, the beginnings of electrical technology. In its present state, it comprises four series: Series 1 contains twenty-two boxes of the William J. Hammer Papers, containing both biographical and autobiographical material; Series 2 has twenty boxes of material on Edison; Series 3 consists of thirty-three boxes of reference material; and Series 4 holds twenty-one boxes of photographs and portraits. See the container list beginning on page 39 for more detailed information on the contents of the collection.
Most of the material in the collection is chronologically arranged. However, in some cases alphabetical arrangement has been employed, for example, in the arrangement of portraits of eminent men of electrical science (Series 4, Boxes 78-80, 100-101), and the arrangement of publications (by authors' last names).
Hammer did original laboratory work upon selenium, radium, cathode rays, x-rays, ultra-violet rays, phosphorescence, fluorescence, cold light, and wireless. These aspects of his career are reflected in many parts of the collection: in Series 1 there are articles, notes, diagrams, sketches, graphs,, and correspondence; in Series 3 articles, magazines, news clippings, and bound pamphlets. Tie contributed many technical writings, some of which are found in Series 1.
Papers detailing Hammer's aeronautical activities were transferred to the National Air and Space Museum. They consist of two scrapbooks and one cubic foot of aeronautical photographs of balloons, airplanes, and gliders and one-half cubic foot of correspondence. For further information contact the National Air and Space Museum Archives at (202) 357-3133.
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'Electrical Diablerie'
"ELECTRICAL DIABLERIE"
N.Y. World, January 3, 1885 and Newark, N.J. Daily Advertiser and Journal, January 3, 1885
Some years ago, (1884) on New Year's eve, an entertainment was given at the home of Mr. William J. Hammer, in Newark, N.J., which, for the display of the powers of electricity has seldom, if ever, been equaled. Mr. Hammer, who has for years been associated with Mr. Edison, both in this country and in Europe, desiring to give his old classmates, the "Society of Seventy-Seven," a lively and interesting time, invited them to "an electrical dinner"at his home.
The invitations which were sent out were written upon Western Union telegram blanks with an Edison electric pen. When the guests arrived and entered the gate, the house appeared dark, but as they placed foot upon the lower step of the veranda a row of tiny electric lights over the door blazed out, and the number of the house appeared in bright relief. The next step taken rang the front door bell automatically, the third threw open the door, and at the same time made a connection which lit the gas in the hall by electricity.
Upon entering the house the visitor was invited to divest himself of his coat and hat, and by placing his foot upon an odd little foot-rest near the door, and pressing a pear-shaped pendant hanging from the wall by a silken cord, revolving brushes attached to an electric motor brushed the mud and snow from his shoes and polished them by electricity. As he was about to let go of the switch or button, a contact in it connected with a shocking coil, caused him to drop it like a hot potato. Up-stairs was a bedroom which would be a fortune to a lazy man; he had only to step on the door sill and the gas was instantly lighted. The ceiling was found to be covered with luminous stars, arranged to represent the principal constellations in the heavens-while comets, moons, etc., shone beautifully in the dark. By placing one's head on the pillow, the gas, fifteen feet away, would be extinguished and the phosphorescent stars on the ceiling would shine forth weirdly, and a phosphorescent moon rose from behind a cloud over the mantel and slowly describing a huge arch disappeared behind a bank of phosphorescent clouds on the other side of the room; by pressing the toe to the foot-board of the bed the gas could again be relit.
Pouring a teacup of water into the water clock on the mantel and setting the indicator would assure the awakening of the sleeper at whatever hour he might desire. There was also in the hall outside the room a large drum, which could be set to beat by electricity at the hour when the family wished to arise. The whole house was fitted throughout with electric bells, burglar alarms, fire alarms, telephones, electric cigar lighters, medical coils, phonographs, electric fans, thermostats, heat regulating devices, some seven musical instruments, operated by electricity, etc.
Upon the evening referred to nearly every. piece of furniture in the parlor was arranged to play its part. Sit on one chair and out went the gas, take another seat and it would light again; sitting on an ottoman produced a mysterious rapping under the floor; pressure on some chairs started off drums, triangles, tambourines, cymbals, chimes and other musical instruments; in fact, it seemed unsafe to sit down anywhere. The quests stood about in groups and whispered, each hoping to see his neighbor or a new comer caught napping.
One visitor (Brown) secured an apparently safe seat, and was telling a funny story--he had left electricity far behind--but just as he reached the climax, a pretty funnel-shaped Japanese affair like a big dunce cap, that seemed but a ceiling ornament which was held in place by an electromagnet, dropped from overhead and quietly covered him up, thus silently extinguishing the story and the story-teller.
A big easy chair placed invitingly between the folding doors joining the double, parlors sent the unwary sitter flying out of its recesses by the sudden deafening clamor of twenty-one electric bells hidden in the folds of the draperies hanging in the doorway. In a convenient position stood the silver lemonade pitcher and cup, the former was filled with the tempting beverage, but no matter how much a guest might desire to imbibe one touch convinced him that the pitcher and cup were so heavily charged with electricity as to render it impossible for him to pour out a drink or even to let go until the electricity was switched off from the hidden induction coil.
Some one proposed music, and half a selection had been enjoyed when something seemed to give way inside the piano, and suddenly there emanated from that bewitched instrument a conglomeration of sounds that drowned the voices of the singers, and the keys seemed to beat upon a horrible jangle of drums, gongs and various noise-producing implements which were fastened inside of and underneath the piano.
After the guest were treated to a beautiful display of electrical experiments, under the direction of Mr. Hammer, and Professor George C. Sonn, they were escorted to the dining-room, where an electrical dinner had been prepared and was presided over by 'Jupiter," who was in full dress, and sat at the head of the table, where by means of a small phonograph inside of his anatomy he shouted, "Welcome, society of Seventy-Seven and their friends to Jove's festive board." The menu was as follows: "Electric Toast," "Wizard Pie," "Sheol Pudding," "Magnetic Cake," "Telegraph Cake," "Telephone Pie," "Ohm-made Electric Current Pie," "Menlo Park Fruit," "Incandescent Lemonade," "'Electric Coffee" and "Cigars," etc., and music by Prof. Mephistopheles' Electric Orchestra.
About the table were pretty bouquets, and among the flowers shone tiny incandescent lamps, while near the center of the table was placed an electric fan which kept the air cool and pure, and at each end was a tiny Christmas tree lighted with small incandescent lamps, planted in a huge dish of assorted nuts and raisins. Each lamp had a dainty piece of ribbon attached to it upon which the initials of the Society and the date were printed, and each guest received a lamp to take away with him as a souvenir of the occasion. Plates of iced cakes made in the form of telephones, switches, bells, electric lamps, batteries, etc., stood on each side of the center piece.
Promptly at 12 o'clock, as the chimes of the distant churches came softly to the ears of the assembled quests, pandemonium seemed to change places with the modest dining-room. A cannon on the porch, just outside the door, and another inside the chimney, were unexpectedly discharged; and at this sudden roar, every man sprang back from the table; the lights disappeared; huge fire-gongs, under each chair beat a tattoo. The concussion produced by the cannon in the fireplace caused several bricks to come crashing down the chimney, and as the year of 1884 faded away, the table seemed bewitched. The "Sheol Pudding" blazed forth green and red flames illuminating the room, tiny tin boxes containing 'Greek" fire which had been placed over each window and door were electrically ignited by spirals of platinum iridium wire heated by a storage battery and blazed up suddenly; the "Telegraph Cake" clicked forth messages said to be press reports of the proceedings (it was also utilized to count the guests and click off the answers to various questions put to it); bells rang inside the pastry; incandescent lamps burned underneath the colored lemonade; the thunderbolt pudding discharged its long black bolts all over the room (long steel spiral springs covered with black cloth) and loud spirit rapping occurred under the table. The silver knives, forks and spoons were charged with electricity from a shocking coil and could not be touched, while the coffee and toast (made by electricity) were made rapidly absorbed; the "Magnetic Cake' disappeared; the "Wizard" and "Current Pies' vanished, and 'Jupiter" raising a glass to his lips began to imbibe.
The effect was astonishing! The gas instantly went out, a gigantic skeleton painted with luminous paint appeared and paraded about the room, while Jupiter's nose assumed the color of a genuine toper! His green eyes twinkled, the electric diamonds in his shirt front (tiny lamps) blazed forth and twinkled like stars, as he phonographically shouted "Happy New Year'. Happy New Year!" This "Master of Cererionies' now becoming more gentle, the guests turned their attention to the beautiful fruit piece, over four feet high, that stood in the center of the table. From the fruit hung tiny electric lamps, and the whole was surmounted by a bronze figure of Bartholdils "Statue of Liberty;" uplifted in "Miss Liberty's" right hand burned an Edison lamp no larger than a bean.
The dinner finished, and there was much that was good to eat, notwithstanding the "magical" dishes which they were first invited to partake of, speeches were delivered by Messrs. Hammer, Rutan, McDougall, 'Brown, Duneka, and Dawson, and an original poem was read by Mr. Van Wyck. Upon repairing to the parlors the guest saw Mr. Hammer's little sister, May, dressed in white and mounted upon a pedestal, representing the "Goddess of Electricity:" tiny electric lamps hung in her hair, and were also suspended as earrings, while she held a wand surmounted by a star, and containing a very small electric lamp.
Not the least interesting display of electricity took place in front of the house, where a fine display of bombs, rockets, Roman candles, Greek fire and other fireworks were set off by electricity, which was by the way, the first time this had been accomplished. The guests were requested to press button switches ranged along the front veranda railing thus causing electricity from a storage battery to heat to a red heat tiny platinum iridium spirals attached to each fuse of the various pieces of fireworks thus sending up rocket after rocket, as well as igniting the other pieces which had been placed in the roadway in front of the house.
An attempt was made to send up a large hot air balloon to which was attached a tiny storage battery and an incandescent signal lamp but a sudden gust of wind caused the ballon to take fire as it rose fr(xn the ground. This constituted the only experiment made during the evening which was not an unqualified success. The innumerable electrical devices shown during the progress of the dinner were all operated by Mr. Hammer, who controlled various switches fastened to the under side of the table and attached to a switchboard, which rested on his lap, while the two cannons were fired by lever switches on the floor, which he operated by the pressure of the foot. Electricity was supplied by primary and storage batteries placed under the table. After an exhibition of electrical apparatus and experiments with a large phonograph, the guests departed with a bewildered feeling that somehow they had been living half a century ahead of the new year."
Expositions and Exhibitions
The many Expositions held at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries were important for the Edison Electric Company's future business. In particular the Paris Electrical Exposition, 1881, and the Crystal Palace Exposition in London in 1892 were introductions for the company's international business enterprises. Edison, therefore, sent his ablest men from the Menlo Park staff (Batchelor, Hammer, Jehl, Johnson) to Europe to oversee the installation and promotion of the company's exhibits.
THE INTERNATIONAL PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1881
The International Paris Electrical Exposition was held during the summer of 1881. Many of Edison's electric lighting systems, ranging from arc lights to incandescent devices, were exhibited. A model of the Edison central-station lighting system showed an arrangement of incandescent lights within a complete electrical distributing system, including novel appliances and controls of the Edison system. "The completeness of its conception made a profound impression on the foremost European electrical engineers of that era." (Josephson, Matthew.
Edison, A Biography. p. 252). Edison also exhibited his first "Jumbon generator. It was "direct-connected" to its driving engine, another area in which Edison pioneered. Edison improved upon the original design of William Wallace's "Telemachon' - a generator coupled to a water-powered turbine. Wallace had earlier in the decade produced the first dynamo in America.
Charles Batchelor headed the Edison exhibits within Paris. Edison received many gold medals and diplomas and was awarded the ribbon of the Legion of Honor.
The William J. Hammer Collection contains various reports and catalogues exhibited at the International Exposition of Electricity. (Series 3, Box 44, Folders 1-4)
THE CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION OF 1882
At the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1882 in London, Edison displayed a great many of his inventions, including: the steam dynamo; specimens of street pipes and service boxes used in the Edison underground system of conductors, and the system of house conductors with devices for preventing abnormal increase of energy in house circuits; apparatus for measuring the resistance of his lamps, for measuring the energy consumed in lamps, and rheostats for restoring currents; also thermogalvano-meters, carbon rheostats, dynamometers, photometers, carbon regulators, Weber meters,, current regulators, and circuit breakers for controlling electric light circuits; the carbon relay, the pressure relay, and the expansion relay; the telegraph system in Morse characters; and the Roman character automatic telegraph.
Thomas Edison also exhibited the carbon telephone, the musical telephonograph, telephone repeater, and numerous apparatus for demonstrating the method of varying the resistance of a closed circuit by contact with carbon, illustrative of the experimental factors of the Edison carbon transmitter. Incandescent lamps, the process of the manufacture of lamps, and various designs of electric light chandeliers were also on display.
Hammer won the silver medal at the exposition for the first complete development of the incandescent electric lamp from its initial stages to date. At the exhibition the first hand-operated flashing electric lamp sign was displayed, which was invented and built by Hammer.
The collection contains photographs of the Edison dynamo, and the Edison Electric Lighting Plant of 1882 erected by Hammer. The official Catalogue of the International Electric and Gas Exhibition, and various articles from the Daily Telegraph, Daily Chronicle, and Daily News are also included within the collection (Series 4, Box 99 and Series 3, Box 42, Folder 1-2).
THE BERLIN EXPOSITION OF 1883.
The Berlin Exposition of 1883 had the first motored flashing electric sign designed, built and operated by Hammer. The electric sign spelled out the word "Edison" letter by letter and was used on the Edison pavilion in the Health Exposition. It has most features of today's flashing sign.
The collection contains two photographs of the first flashing sign (Series 4, Box 99).
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION OF 1884
The Franklin Institute International Electrical Exhibition was held in Philadelphia from September 2 to October 14, 1884. Many of Edison's companies had display booths at the exhibition. The Edison Electric Light Company showed in operation their system of house lighting as supplied from a central station. The Edison Company for Isolated Lighting exhibited their system of lighting factories, hotels, hospitals, and other places situated beyond the reach of a central lighting station. A full assortment of Edison lamps and dynamos also made up parts of other exhibits. Also displayed at the exhibition was the first flashing column of light, which Hammer designed and built.
Included within the collection are a variety of photographs of the exhibitions. Four pamphlets also are contained in the collection (Series 3, Box 1, Folder 3), (Series 4, Box 99).
THE EXPOSITION OF THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL STATES OF 1888
The Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, in Cincinnati from July 4 to October 27, was in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Cincinnati. The exposition showed the progress and ramifications of the first hundred years of this settlement.
The space occupied by permanent buildings was greater than that covered by any building for exhibiting purposes on the Western continent. T',ie exposition developed the Electric Light Plant to make a special feature of electric lighting in the evening. Several companies used this opportunity to make exhibits of their apparatus and for their equipment to be used for illumination. The Edison Lamps were used for displays in showcases and pavilions of exhibitors of the Park Building.
The collection contains photographs of the halls of the exposition and a poster which is a souvenir of the electrical display of the exposition. An official Guide of the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States is included within the collection. (Series 4, Box 99), (Series 3, Box 42, Folder 4).
THE SUMMER CARNIVAL AND ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, 1889
The Summer Carnival and Electric Exhibition held at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada was to celebrate the opening of the Canadian Pacific Short Line to St. John and Portland. The Electrical Exhibition was the most popular of the displays present, containing the Monster Edison Lanm, the Mysterious Electric Fountain, and many other inventions.
The William J. Hammer Collection contains a poster that illustrates some of the leading exhibits at the Electrical Exhibition (Series 4, Box 99).
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION OF 1889
The Universal Exposition of 1889 held in Paris was larger than all previous expositions held there. The famous Eiffel Tower was its principal attraction.
A large portion of the exhibit hall within the Palace of Mechanical Industries contained Thomas Edison's electrical inventions, including various electric lamps for use in houses. Variations of the telephone also were shown. During the Paris Exposition Europeans were exposed to the phonograph for the first time. Hammer represented Edison's interests at the Paris Exhibition.
The collection contains articles from New York World, New York Herald and Electrical World on Edison's exhibits at the Paris Exposition ([Series 3](NMAH.AC.0069_ref715), Box 44, folder 6). A scrapbook of photographs from the exhibition showing exhibit buildings and halls and loose photographs showing Edison's exhibits are included in the collection (Series 4, Box 98).
THE CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION OF 1892
The Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1892 was held in London. Hammer displayed a great variety of products in the machine room of the Electrical Exhibition. Sockets for controlling individual incandescent lamps on alternating currents and the Ward Arc Lamp for use on incandescent circuits were just a few of the items displayed. Edison's companies displayed specimens of all types of incandescent electric lamps for public and private illumination. They also displayed primary batteries for use in telegraphy, telephony, household work, and engines.
The William, J. Hammer Collection contains a variety of photographs of the electrical exhibition. The Official Catalogue and Guide of the Electrical Exhibition is also contained within the collection (Series 4, Box 99), (Series 3, Folder 2, Box 42).
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, 1904
The Louisiana Purchase Expostition of 1904, held in St. Louis, Missouri from April 30 to December 1, celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. The nineteen million people who attended made it the largest exposition ever. The year 1904 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Edison's invention of the carbon filament lamp and central power station system.
F.J.V. Skiff, the exhibits classifier for the fair, developed a twofold classificatory arrangement. He organized exhibits in a sequential synopsis corresponding to the sixteen different departments of the exposition. The principal exhibition buildings were built in the shape of a fan. The departments of education, art, liberal arts, and applied sciences-including electricity - headed the classification, Skiff noted, because they "equip man for the battle and prepare him for the enjoyments of life.' Departments devoted to displays of raw materials such as agriculture, horticulture, !inning, forestry, fish and game came next. Anthropology, social economy, and physical culture concluded the classification.
The Hammer collection contains photographs of Hammer with other Chairmen of Domestic and Foreign Jurors of the Electricity Section of the International Jury of Awards of the Louisiana Exposition and Hammer as chairman of the jury on telegraphy, telephony, and wireless. (Series 4, Box 102). A pamphlet by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the exhibit of the Radiophone at the Department of Applied Science is also part of the collection (Series 3, Box 42, Folder 5).
THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION OF 1915
The Panama Pacific Exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and the four hundredth anniversary of the European discovery of the Pacific Ocean. It was held in San Francisco from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Approximately nineteen million people attended the exposition.
The eleven main buildings of the exposition were grouped around a central court of the Sun and Stars at the entrance of which was the famous Tower of Jewels. The main group of exhibits comprised the Palaces of Education, Liberal Arts, Manufactures, Varied Industries, Mines,
Transportation, Agriculture, Horticulture and all kinds of food products. During the exposition special days were set aside to honor industrialists Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company provided a large searchlight to flash out a Morse code greeting on the nighttime sky for their arrival.
The William J. Hammer Collection contains a pamphlet on the "Illumination of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition." The pamphlet describes the lighting of the exposition, and the use of arc lamps ' searchlights, incandescent electric lamps, and gas lamps (Series 4, Box 99), (Series 3, Box 43).
Custodial History
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Electricity and Modern Physics (now Division of Work and Industry), September 9, 1983.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by IBM, 1962.
Preferred Citation
William J. Hammer Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Processing Information
Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1996.
I would like to thank the staff of the Division of Electricity for their help and cooperation in the transfer of the collection, particularly Dr. Bernard Finn, Ray Hutt, Eliot Sivowitch, and Anastasia Atsiknoudas.
Several members of the Archives Center have helped me process this collection: Fuabeh Fonge and Elena Lawrence worked consistently over a summer arranging and describing portions of the collection; Don Darroch and Mumia Shimaka-Mbasu worked on the correspondence; and Evon Underhill has likewise worked on the collection and typed most of this register.
I would like to thank Bob Selim for his editing of this document. I would also like to particularly thank John Fleckner for his continuing guidance in this project.
Fluorescence
Electrical engineering
Incandescent lamps
Phosphorescence
Correspondence -- 1930-1950
Selenium cells
Cathode rays
Photographs -- 1850-1900
Photographs -- 20th century
X-rays
Radium
Curie, Pierre
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics
Batchelor, George
Curie, Marie
Upton, Francis R.
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929
Jehl, Francis
Johnson, Edward H.
Sprague, Frank J.
William J. Hammer Papers
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1851-1957
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of correspondence, mostly incoming, from 1879-1935, but also includes diaries, notebooks, biographical information, patent material, pamphlets, writings by Hammer, and a badge, 1925. The correspondence consists mostly of letters to and from Hammer regarding his project of thirty-four years, his Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps for which he built a permanent home in New York City. There are also many letters from companies and businesses, universities and individuals, for whom Hammer served as a consultant. Some of Hammer's correspondents were well known scientists of the day: Alexander Graham Bell, Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Madam Curie, Lord Kelvin, and Secretary S.P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, to mention a few. There is extensive correspondence related to Hammer's research, including his work on selenium and radium. Also included is correspondence between Hammer and professional societies in which he held membership. The correspondence between 1925 and 1935 is devoted to the cataloguing of his collection and to the establishment of a museum at Dearborn, Michigan, in honor of Thomas A. Edison, a project Henry Ford agreed to fund.
Arrangement note
The correspondence is arranged in two chronological subseries: Boxes 1-9, Incoming and outgoing, 1879-1935; and Boxes 9-9A, outgoing, 1902-1928. The reason for this arrangement is not known. Each document is numbered and a calendar listing of each letter showing names of correspondents and date has been prepared. (See "List of Correspondence" in control file)
Correspondence
1.1
Archival Resource Key
1873-1957
Scope and Contents note
Individual letters have been numbered
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1879-1895
1
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1896-1903
2
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1904-1913
3
Incoming and outgoing
[Orville Wright to William Hammer [letter]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Ink on paper.
11.0" x 8.5"
July 17, 1913
English.
3
10
[Orville Wright to William Hammer [letter]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000013 (AC scan number)
Scope and Contents
Thank you note for the copies of "Chronolgy [sic] of Aviation." Duplicate, marked 900.
Correspondence
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
[Orville Wright to William Hammer : letter]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
1 Item
Ink on paper.
7.1" x 7.3"
July 17, 1913
English.
3
10
[Orville Wright to William Hammer : letter].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000014 (AC scan number)
Scope and Contents
Acknowledgment for copies of "Chronolgy [sic] of Aviation." Photographic copy (?), cropped, marked 901.
Aviation
Letters (correspondence) -- 1900-1950
Correspondence
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1873-1892; 1914-1917
4
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1893-1903
5
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1904-1908
6
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1909-1920
7
Incoming and outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1921-1930
8
Incoming and outgoing
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1931-1935; 1955; 1957
9
Outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1902-1928
9
Scope and Contents
- 1902-1903 (letterpress book)
- 1903 (letterpress book)
- April 1924
- May-October 1928
Outgoing
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1903-1904; 1904; 1904-1905
10
Alphabetical index to correspondence
Archival Resource Key
11
8
Biographical Materials
1.2
Archival Resource Key
1863-1904
Personal family correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1863-1904
11
1
Genealogical Materials
Archival Resource Key
11
2
Identification cards; club cards; passport
Archival Resource Key
11
3
School papers
Archival Resource Key
1876-1878
11
4
Personal sketches
Archival Resource Key
11
5
Clippings and pamphlets; "Electrical Diablerie"
Archival Resource Key
11
6
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
11
7
Biographical materials
Archival Resource Key
12
1
Biographical materials
Archival Resource Key
12
2
Biographical materials
Archival Resource Key
12
3
Awards & certificates
Archival Resource Key
12
4
Notes, correspondence, speeches
Archival Resource Key
12
5
Notes re: phonograph
Archival Resource Key
12
6
Miscellaneous sketches and personal memos of Hammer
Archival Resource Key
12
7
Autobiography of Hammer prepared for the "Edison Pioneers"
Archival Resource Key
12
8
Notebooks and Diaries
1.3
Archival Resource Key
1880-1932
Menlo Park notebook
Archival Resource Key
1880
13
1
Notebook on dynamo-electric and magneto-electric machines
Archival Resource Key
1882
13
2
Notebook (a)
Archival Resource Key
1885 & 1886
13
3
Notebook (b)
Archival Resource Key
1885 & 1886
13
4
Notebook (c)
Archival Resource Key
1885 & 1886
13
5
Notebook from his trip to Europe
Archival Resource Key
1900
13
6
Notes and sketchbook
Archival Resource Key
1900
13
7
Notebook (monthly notes about Edison)
Archival Resource Key
14
8
Note-and sketchbook
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
9
Notebook (shopping list)
Archival Resource Key
14
10
Diary kept by Hammer when working on Siemens Electric Railroad case
Archival Resource Key
1898
14
11
Diary
Archival Resource Key
1900
14
12
Diary
Archival Resource Key
1916
14
13
Daily journal
Archival Resource Key
1906
14
14
Loose paper from Hammer's journal
Archival Resource Key
1906
14
15
Date book
Archival Resource Key
1929
15
16
Loose paper from Hammer's: Date book
Archival Resource Key
1929
15
17
Memoranda of inventions of T.A. Edison
Archival Resource Key
15
18
Inserts from Hammer's lab notebook #3
Archival Resource Key
15
19
Loose paper from notebook #8: Deutschen Edison Gesellschaft
Archival Resource Key
15
20
Miscellaneous notes of Hammer
Archival Resource Key
15
21
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1924-1932
15
22
Writings by Hammer
1.4
Archival Resource Key
1851-1931
Autobiography of Hammer prepared for the Edison Pioneers; Correspondence: 1925, with Henry Schroeder and John W. Howell regarding their book, The History of the Incandescent Lamp; Hammer's biographical notes
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Writings on Edison
Archival Resource Key
16
2
Edison--man and Genius, The Philadelphia Record
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1931
16
3
Writings on Edison - General
Archival Resource Key
16
4
Address of the President of the Edison Pioneers; Stories of Menlo Park Days related by Hammer; and other writings
Archival Resource Key
April, 1920
16
5
Edison and His Invention: A Lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia, by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
February 4, 1889
16
6
Notes: on visits to the Edison Installations; on the radiophone at the New York Electrical Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
16
7
'Mock-up' for William Wallace and His Contribution to the Electrical Industries by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
16
8
General Notes and Writings:
Archival Resource Key
Biography of Moses Gerrish Farmer prepared for Hammer by Ms. Farmer at the request of Moses G. Farmer
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 18, 1892
17
1
Notes on radium, radiation, and radioactivity, prepared by Hammer for Encyclopedia Americana
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Notes on Ernest Rutherford
Archival Resource Key
17
1
B.F. Miessner, E.E. '17, "A New Solution for the Problem of Selectivity in Torpedo Control," Purdue Engineering Review
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Phosphorescence, Scientific American Supplement, No.1191
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 29, 1898
17
1
To The Question of 'Sensational Claims' of Enormous Figures for Radio-Active Bodies: What Professor Soddy says (verbally), and what a German scientist says (translated)
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Observations on electrostatic phenomena
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Hammer, "Transportation of a Busy People," The Independent
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Miscellaneous notes
Archival Resource Key
17
1
Patents:
Archival Resource Key
George H. Benjamin, "The History and Effect of Electrical Patents," Electrical Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, January 12, 1901
Archival Resource Key
17
2
Hammer, "Apparatus for measuring Light," Application filed Oct. 31, 1906; Western Electric
Archival Resource Key
June 6, 1888
17
2
John Elfreth Watkins, "What Uncle Sam is Doing," The Ladies' Home Journal
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1907
17
2
William Hard, "Butter Business,* Everybody's Magazine, 1914
Archival Resource Key
17
2
French patents: issue dates
Archival Resource Key
17
2
specification for Hammer's invention of the Photo Electric Transmission
Archival Resource Key
17
2
Diagrams, Drawings, Sketches, and Graphs:
Archival Resource Key
Types of selenium cells selected by Hammer selenium cell controlling electric circuit
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Unidentified graph
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Automatic indicator and recorder of time and duration of snow storms
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Device for starting an electric motor by means of a selenium cell
Archival Resource Key
1914
17
3
Protection of safes by means of the selenium cell
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Method of Operating Iron Shutters on Buildings
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Steering a torpedo by means of a searchlight
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Minchins impulsion type of photo-electric cell
Archival Resource Key
1890
17
3
Musical note produced by revolving shutter in a vacuum (J.W. Giltay's Suggestion)
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Photograph showing 3 h.p. motor & 3 h.p. generator
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Scope and Contents note
Supplying a band of lamps which Hammer started and stopped many times by waving his hand between an acetylene jet and a selenium cell
Apparatus invented and operated by Hammer used in his lecture at the College of the City of New York
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 17, 1903
17
3
System of automatically controlling street lights and other lights by means of the selenium cell invented by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
1886
17
3
Automatic boiler feed by selenium cell control of the pump
Archival Resource Key
1910
17
3
Selenium cell to protect safe or homes from burglars
Archival Resource Key
17
3
Method of recording length of time of operation at a motor or other apparatus, or its time of starting and stopping
Archival Resource Key
1910
17
3
Selenium:
Archival Resource Key
Selenium notes and slides (only notes)
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Writings about selenium, (not titled)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
4
Hammer, "Selenium Cells Bring Back Age of Miracles," New York Daily Tribune
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 20, 1910
17
4
Data on selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Notes on selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Article titled "Mr. Hammer Talks on Selenium"
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Advertisements for graphite - selenium cells, London
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Hammer's typed notes on selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Acetylene Flame Apparatus, Riohmer Selenium Cell, Relays and Battery for Operating Electric Lamp, Bell, Motor and Horn, Scientific American Supplement
Archival Resource Key
May 30, 1903
17
4
Hammer, "Photoelectric Property of Selenium" (Letter to the Editor), Electrical Review
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 19, 1907
17
4
Bibliography of selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
The Properties and Applications of selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Proposed Use of Selenium in Signaling, The Electrical Engineer
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 7, 1908
17
4
Several untitled notes and data on selenium
Archival Resource Key
17
4
Edisonia:
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Hammer's notes
Archival Resource Key
17
5
Creator of Yellow Kid once Served Edison, New York World
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 14, 1928
17
5
Radioactivity:
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Hammer, Radioactivity, prepared for the Encyclopedia Americana
Archival Resource Key
17
6
Hammer's claims that he was the first person to propose and utilize radioactive solutions internally
Archival Resource Key
17
6
Scientific American Compiling Department, Radio-activity
Archival Resource Key
17
6
List of radioactive substances by Dr. Karl Hofmann
Archival Resource Key
17
6
Correspondence:
Archival Resource Key
Regarding Patents
Archival Resource Key
17
7
Personal to Hammer
Archival Resource Key
17
7
From Jared Sparks of Cambridge College to Henry C. Cary
Archival Resource Key
April 24, 1851
17
7
Scope and Contents note
(Nothing to do with Hammer or Edisoniana)
Copies of correspondence
Archival Resource Key
17
7
Radium:
Archival Resource Key
Undated memorandum signed by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Hammer, "Radium," prepared for the Encyclopedia Americana
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Lecture on radium by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Academy of Science & Art, Pittsburgh, Synopsis of Hammer's lecture on "Radium and its Remarkable Properties" delivered on Oct. 22, 1903
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Hammer, "Radium and Other Radioactive Substances," Scientific American, No. 1429
Archival Resource Key
May 23, 1903
17
8
Madame Pierre Curie and Professor Curie copy made for Hammer by Paul F. Mathelay
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Hammer, proving claim to first thinking of medical use of radium
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Listing of persons to whom Hammer's book on radium was sent
Archival Resource Key
17
8
Hammer's notebooks:
Archival Resource Key
Notebook on selenium
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
9
Notebook on selenium
Archival Resource Key
1883
17
9
Notebook on phosphorescence
Archival Resource Key
1902-1903
17
9
Hammer (President), National Conference on Standard Electrical Rules
Archival Resource Key
1896
18
1
Hammer, Important European Electrical and Engineering Developments at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 28, 1901
18
1
The Telephonoqraph
Archival Resource Key
1902
18
2
Edison's Tunqstate of Calcium Lamp: Radium, Polonium and Actinium
Archival Resource Key
1902
18
2
Report on the Faller Automatic Telephone Operator
Archival Resource Key
1902
18
2
An Automatic Telephone operator
Archival Resource Key
1903
18
2
The Faller Automatic Telephone operator, (Reprint)
Archival Resource Key
1903
18
2
Radium and Other Radioactive Substances with a Consideration of Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Substances; Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium
Archival Resource Key
1903
18
2
Notes on Recent Electrical and Scientific Developments Abroad
Archival Resource Key
1903
18
3
Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps, Journal of the Franklin Institute
Archival Resource Key
1906
18
3
Electric Lighting by Incandescence
Archival Resource Key
1907
18
3
Surface Properties of Aluminum and Zinc
Archival Resource Key
1907
18
3
A Flight Over Paris
Archival Resource Key
1907
18
3
Chronology of Aviation
Archival Resource Key
1911
18
4
The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps
Archival Resource Key
1913
18
4
Transactions of the New York Electrical Society
Archival Resource Key
1913
18
4
The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 1914
18
4
The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 1928
18
4
The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
5
Compliments of William J. Hammer
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
6
Secondary Writings About Hammer
1.5
Archival Resource Key
1880-1913
Bibliography on selenium
Archival Resource Key
April 1912
19
1
References on selenium (includes dates, names of authors, where found, and nature of work)
Archival Resource Key
19
1
Bibliography on selenium (updated and expanded)
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
19
1
A New Type of Selenium Cell, Western Electrician
Archival Resource Key
November 23, 1907
19
1
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission's "List of References (Misc.) not found"
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 25-Oct. 9, 1909
19
1
Library of the Engineering Societies, New York City, references on selenium cells compiled, from chemical abstracts only, for Hammer
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 3, 1913
19
1
Blueprints, of Hammer's inventions:
Archival Resource Key
1882-1887
19
2
Diagram of Maschine zur Aufertigung von Drabt-Tsclirleinewand;
Archival Resource Key
1882
19
2
Lamp detacher and attacher;
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 16, 1883
19
2
Can opener
Archival Resource Key
1887
19
2
Diagram of "Une Remarguable Experience de Transmission Phonographique et Telephonique entre New York et Philadelphie" demonstrated by Hammer in his lecture on "Edison et ses Inventions" at the Franklin Institute
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 4, 1889
19
2
Schutzqitter fur Glublampen
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
2
Sdromunterbrecher
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
2
Several copies of unidentified diagrams in blueprints
Archival Resource Key
19
2
Paper on Paris Exposition of 1900
Archival Resource Key
19
3
Extracts from paper read by Mr. John Gavey, Electrician of His Majesty's Posts and Telegraphs, before the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Great Britain, December, 1900; said paper being upon the electrical features of the Paris Exposition of 1900
Archival Resource Key
19
3
Articles and notes on Hammer's inventions
Archival Resource Key
19
4
Notice of Hammer's lecture on "Electrical Wonders," Union Hall
Archival Resource Key
March 11, 1887
19
4
Scope and Contents note
Includes synopsis of the lecture
Photo copies of "The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium" awarded to Hammer for his "Telephone Relay," including a drawing of, and an article on, Hammer's long distance sound experiment
Archival Resource Key
1889
19
4
The W. J. Hammer Telephone Relay, Western Electrician
Archival Resource Key
April 5, 1902
19
4
Articles on Hammer's incandescent lamp prepared by Earl N. Fridley for his New York Sunday Tribune but never used
Archival Resource Key
19
4
Scrap notes
Archival Resource Key
19
4
Identified & unidentified sketches, drawings, tracings & diagrams
Archival Resource Key
19
5
Identified sketches, drawings, tracings, and diagrams of incandescent electric lamps
Archival Resource Key
1880
19
6
Vacuum apparatus for extracting the air from Edison's Electric lamps at Edison's laboratory
Archival Resource Key
July 8, 1880
19
6
First Steam-tight globe for incandescent lamp
Archival Resource Key
1880 or 1881
19
6
Electric signs
Archival Resource Key
March 1880
19
6
Cheap and simple form of Edison lamps
Archival Resource Key
19
6
original motor driver "Flasher"
Archival Resource Key
1883
19
6
Fasting plug
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 6, 1882
19
6
original of all 'Bug Cut Outs"
Archival Resource Key
1882
19
6
Glass sealed ball galvanometer
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 21, 1883
19
6
Regulator for controlling two circuits at one time
Archival Resource Key
April 7,1883
19
6
Phantom Shadow
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 24, 1893
19
6
Testing apparatus
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 23, 1883
19
6
Can locking plug switch with multiple fuses
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 30, 1886
19
6
Multiple fuse
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 12, 1896
19
6
Snap switch for breaking heavy currents; patented May 17, 1887
Archival Resource Key
19
6
Circuit tester
Archival Resource Key
June 20, 1887
19
6
Balance indicator and feeder ampere meter
Archival Resource Key
July 8, 1887
19
6
Safety device for electrical circuits, patented Feb. 12, 1889
Archival Resource Key
19
6
Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
19
7
Holborn Viaduct Project, London
1.6
Archival Resource Key
1882
Hammer's notebook on first central station
Archival Resource Key
1881-1882
20
1
Reports of the Streets Committee to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London: "Proceedings Relative to the Applications for an Extension of the Experiments in Electric Lighting," London
Archival Resource Key
1882
20
1
Something More than the Electric Lighting Bill, Sir Frederick Bramwell, F.R.S.
Archival Resource Key
1882
20
1
Extract from Report of the Streets Committee on Electric Lighting, London
Archival Resource Key
1880
20
1
Pamphlet on electric lighting
Archival Resource Key
20
1
Map of the City of London's Electric Lighting
Archival Resource Key
1882-1883
20
1
Report of Drs. Hopkinson and Fleming on the Holborn Viaduct Installation, July, 1982
Archival Resource Key
20
1
The First Central Station for Incandescent Lighting Electric World and Engineer, Vol. 42, no. 10, by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
1904
20
2
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
March-July, 1882
20
2
Report on the central station, Holborn Viaduct by J. Hopkinson and J.A. Fleming, London
Archival Resource Key
July 1882
20
2
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
20
3
E.H. Johnson's notes re: London, England
Archival Resource Key
1881-1882
20
3
Plan showing the illumination of Holborn Viaduct by the Edison Electric Light System
Archival Resource Key
1881-1882
20
3
Photo copy of article "The First Central Station for Incandescent Lighting" by Hammer, Electric World and Engineer, Vol. 42 #10
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 5, 1904
20
3
Holborn Viaduct central station: Plan showing course of post office cable
Archival Resource Key
20
4
Hammer's Notes
Archival Resource Key
20
4
Copy of Report of Trial of the Second 146 JP Boiler supplied by the Babcock & Wilcox Company to the Edison Electric Light Company
Archival Resource Key
20
4
Electric Light Act
Archival Resource Key
1882
20
4
Hammer's notes on the first central station for incandescent electric lighting
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 5, 1904
20
4
Envelope containing damaged drawings
Archival Resource Key
20
4
Patent Materials
1.7
Archival Resource Key
1883-1930
Hammer German Patent: Glockenscherissel Fur Elektrische Gluhlampen #27680
Archival Resource Key
21
1
Correspondence, Hammer to Messrs: Dyer & Seeley regarding patents
Archival Resource Key
1886
21
1a
Hammer's Patent: Combination-Tool #363,331
Archival Resource Key
May 17, 1887
21
2
Hammer's Patent & Advertising Card: Device for Attaching & Detaching Electric Lamps #363,332
Archival Resource Key
May 17, 1887
21
3
Hammer's Patent: Indicator for Electrical Lighting Systems #363,333
Archival Resource Key
May 17, 1887
21
4
Hammer's Patent Specifications, and Diagrams for Electrical Switch, #363,334
Archival Resource Key
May 17, 1887
21
5
Hammer & Francis R. Upton Patents: Connecting Device for Electrical Conductors; Safety Catch for Electrical Circuits #368,764
Archival Resource Key
August 23, 1887
21
6
Hammer's Letters of Patents: Specifications and Diagrams: for Can-opener, #369,108
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August 30, 1887
21
7
Hammer's Patent: Safety Device for Electrical Circuits #397,715, February 12, 1889; #400,669
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April 2, 1889
21
8
Hammer's Patent: Selenium Cells #888,802
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Sep. 17, 1907
21
9
Hammer's Patent: Apparatus for measuring Light # 888,801, May 26, 1908
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21
10
Hammer's Patent Method of Measuring Light #888,802, May 26, 1908
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21
11
Hammer's (Letters of ) Patents: Specifications, and Diagrams: Art of making Phosphorescent Colors original #868,779
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Oct. 22, 1902
21
12
Scope and Contents note
Reissue #12,812 June 16, 1908
Hammer's Deposit Slip for Photograph, "A Scientific Hand," left at Library of Congress
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Sept. 14, 1906
21
13
Hammer "To Whom It May Concern" Letters re: patents: Philosophical Apparatus; Luminescent Signs, and Correspondence regarding same #437,146
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1909-1910
21
14
Signed Agreement between Hammer & Upton
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March 1, 1887
21
15
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Upton's Financial Assistance
Patents and Patent Infringement Data regarding radium-luminous materials
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21
16
George F. Barker's Affidavit, for use in the Suit of Edison Electric Light Co. and Edison General Electric Co. Vs ?
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21
17
Decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the Edison Incandescent Lamp patent, Extra the Electrical Engineer
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Oct. 4, 1892
21
18
Hammer's Electrician's Pocket Tool
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21
19
Misc. Periodical Articles, including "Reforms in the Patent System," by Thomas Ewing, Jr. The Electrical Engineer
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May 6, 1891
21
20
Correspondence
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1899-1918
21
21
Correspondence, Incoming & outgoing
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April 1892; October 27, 1902
21
21a
Scope and Contents note
Regarding long distance sound transmission
Hammer's Notebook on Electrical Patents 1883-84; Misc. patent notes; A List of Some of Hammer's Electrical Inventions 1880-85
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1883-1885
21
22
Hammer's Sketch; Neon Tube Window Display Signs Brochure; Miscellaneous negatives
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21
23
Diagrams of unidentified Hammer inventions
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1907-1908
21
24
Clippings: talking movies, television, radio
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1909-1930
21
25
Hammer's list of television patents 24
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1906-1926
21
26
Illustrations and photographic cards of Hammer's patents
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21
27
Hammer - patent material - testimony, interferences
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21
28
Hammer's testimony: Old Colony Trust Company vs. the City of Omaha
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1912
21
29
Artifacts
1.8
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1925
Badge
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1925
22
Original Tags from Hammer Collection of objects
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22
Edisonia
Series 2
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1847-1960
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of the following material about the Edison inventions: announcements; articles; blueprints, copies of agreements; copies of Edison patents, and other patent materials; correspondence; data relative to the Edison Central Stations; diagrams; Edison Pioneer constitution and by-laws; Edison storage battery data; exhibits to legal cases; excerpts; general inspection reports and suggestions to officers and Directors of fifteen Edison central Stations; general reference articles on Edison; invitations; journals; magazines; manuscripts; material on phonographs; material relative to legal proceedings; memoranda of some central stations; memoranda on various lamp companies,- Menlo Park data; newsclippings; newspapers; notes; obituaries; pamphlets; speeches; and testimonies.
Pearl Street Station, New York
2.1
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1904
Notes on the planning of Central Station at 255 & 277 Pearl Street
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23
1
Estimates for Central Station
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23
1
News clippings from "Electrical Experimenter,' Electrical Review, New York Tribune, etc
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23
1
The Historic Pearl Street New York, Edison Station by John W. Lieb, first electrician of the station Edisonia
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1904
23
1
The Historic Pearl Street New York, Edison Station by John W. Lieb, first electrician of the station
Edisonia
Model of the [Edison Electric Co.] Pearl Street Station exhibited at St. Louis [caption under image: black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
5.0" x 7.9"
Circa 1905
English.
Model of the [Edison Electric Co.] Pearl Street Station exhibited at St. Louis [caption under image: black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000009 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Arrangement
Series ?, box 23. folder 1.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Scale model of the 1882 station exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.
Power stations
Exhibitions
Models
Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Economy test at the Harrisburg Electric Light Co.'s Central Station, Harrisburg, Pa. by Hammer
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23
1
Hammer's note of time of first excavation
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23
1
Edison Effect - Etheric Force And Related Data
2.2
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1879-1930
Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
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1882-1884
24
1
Pages of the Electric Engineer, vol. 23 no. 463
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March 17, 1897
24
1
A few pages from Scientific American
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Jul. 4, 1903
24
1
Three Makers of Vacuum Tube History Popular Science Monthly
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Aug. 1922
24
1
Wonders of the Thermionic Valve Make a Romance of Broadcasting by Professor J. A. Fleming, New York Herald Tribune
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Apr. 13, 1924
24
1
Invisible Black Light may Now Trap Burglars or Cure Disease by E. E. Free, New York Herald Tribune
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Oct.17, 1926
24
1
Photo-electric Cell Passes Exacting Fatigue Tests Electrical World
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Jul. 30, 1927
24
1
The Theory and characteristics of Radiotrons by Dr. Lewis R. Koller and Henry Schrolder, General Electric Review
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Dec. 1927
24
1
Radio Times, The Journal of the BBC
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Sept. 21, 1928
24
1
Edison's Contribution to Wireless by Francis Jehl, Edison Monthly
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Dec. 1928
24
1
Some Photo-electric and Glow Discharge Devices and Their Application to Industry by J.V. Bresky and E.O. Erickson, Journal, AIE
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Feb. 1929
24
1
1929 advertisement from the Radio Corporation
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1929
24
1
The Family Tree of the Thermionic Tubes
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1930
24
1
Conductivity of Incandescent Carbon Filaments and of Space Surrounding Them by J.W. Howell
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24
1
A few pages of a notebook of Hammer's
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Oct. 3, 1884
24
2
Curve sheet made by Hammer Feb. 26, 1881, used in his test with Edison's incandescent electric lamps Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol. 14 no. 2
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February, 1897
24
3
Copies of The Edison Effect and Its Modern Applications by Clayton H. Sharp
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1921
24
3
Francis Jehl, "The Edison Effect Tube," The Edison Monthly
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Feb. 1926
24
3
Notes
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24
3
News clippings
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24
3
Photocopy of pages of Engineering Societies Library, nos. 5071 and 5072
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24
3
Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting of April 4, 1879
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1879
24
4
Proceedings of the Physical Society of London from January 1882 to March 1884
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1882-1884
24
4
Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol. 11, no. 4
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April 1884
24
4
The Audion - its Action and Some Recent Applications, Lee DeForest, Journal of the Franklin Institute
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Jul. 1920
24
4
Etheric Force by Edwin W. Hammer
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Oct. 1922
24
4
Manuscripts-- Edison Effect
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24
5
Scope and Contents note
Includes drawings depicting standard of blackening, for Edison incandescent lamp (1880-1887); "Experiments with Light Sensitive Cells," H.M. Bayer,
Radio News, April 1929; "Personal," Electrical Engineering, Feb. 1931
Edison Electric Light Company: Lamps, Distribution
2.3
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1866-1902
Data relative to the Edison Central Stations for incandescent electric lighting
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25
1
Hammer's references to articles relating to incandescent lamps
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25
1
Hammer, "Edison's Tungstate of Calcium Lamp"
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Jan. 3. 1902
25
1
Data relative to the incandescent lamp
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25
1
License agreement
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25
1
Notes on the meter
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25
1
Edison's distribution systems
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25
1
List of central illuminating companies in the United States
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June 1887
25
1
Estimate of cost and annual operating expenses of small central stations for the system of electric lighting
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25
1
Prices charged to Edison licensee companies
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25
1
Advertising pamphlet on Edison Electric Light Company
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25
1
Exhibits to legal cases regarding patents
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25
2
Exhibits to legal cases regarding patents
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25
3
List of Edison Central Station Illuminating Companies in the United States
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April 22, 1866
25
3
Other lists (tendered as exhibits)
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25
3
Saving in copper by the Edison 'Feeder System" and Edison "Three wire System"
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25
3
Correspondence relating to the Edison Electric Light Company
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1895
25
3
Trust Agreement between the Farmers Loan and Trust Company with Edison General Electric Company and Edward H. Johnson and Frank J. Sprague
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25
3
Miscellaneous Notes
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25
3
William J. Hammer, Electric Lighting by Incandescence
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25
3
Scope and Contents note
Tables showing the comparative cost of lighting for one year (300 days) by the Edison Incandescent Electric Light and The Gas Machine
Notes re: electric light
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April 1879
25
4
Edison lamp test results from Jehl in Vienna and Budapest to Hammer
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undated
25
5
Miscellaneous Machinery Blue prints
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25
6
Miscellaneous Machinery Blue prints
News clippings: Edison's light and lighting system
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25
7
Notes from Edison notebook (in Edison's writing)
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25
8
General Inspection Reports On, And Suggestions To The Officers And Directors Of The Edison Central Stations
2.4
Archival Resource Key
May 1885-April 1886 and undated
1885-1886
Cumberland, Maryland
Archival Resource Key
1886
General Inspection Report
Archival Resource Key
April 28, 1886
26
1
Suggestions to the Officers and Directors
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April 28, 1886
26
1
Brockton, Massachusetts
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1885
General Inspection Report
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June 3, 1885
26
2
Newburgh, New York
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1885
General Inspection Report
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1885
26
3
General Inspection Report
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undated
26
3
New York
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1886
The Edison Meter and Contract Systems of Change
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May 24, 1886
26
4
The Standard Volt-meter (Explanation of Principles)
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undated
26
4
Ashland, Pennsylvania
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1886
General Inspection Report
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March 18, 1886
26
5
Suggestions
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March 19, 1886
26
5
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1886
General Inspection Report
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April 19, 1886
26
6
Harrisburg, Penssylvania
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1886
General Inspection Report
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August 29-30, 1885, 1886
26
7
Special Inspection Report (General Complaints and Pressure Indicators)
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undated
26
7
General Inspection Report
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May 1885
26
7
Hazelton, Pa:
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General Inspection Report
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March 22, 1886
26
8
Memorandum for Executive Committee
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March 9, 1886
26
8
Johnstown, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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April 21, 1886
26
9
Mt. Carmel, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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March 22, 1886
26
10
Criticisms and Suggestions to the Officers and Directors
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March 23, 1886
26
10
Shamokin, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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April 2, 1886
26
11
Criticisms and Suggestions to the Officers and Directors
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April 2, 1886
26
11
Sunbury, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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April 10, 1886
26
12
Tamaqua, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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March 11, 1886
26
13
Williamsport, Pa.:
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General Inspection Report
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April 13, 1886
26
14
Fall River, Lawrence, Sunbury:
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General Inspection Report on the Edison Central Station at:
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26
15
Fall River, Mass.
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May, 1885
26
15
Lawrence, Mass.
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June 16, 1885
26
15
Sunbury, Pa.
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April 10, 1886
26
15
Edison Lamp Co.
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26
16
Memoranda on various companies
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March-May, 1886:
Hazelton Cos. Central Station
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March 7, 1886
26
16
Tamaqua Cos. Central Station
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March 11, 1886
26
16
Ashland Cos. Central Station
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March 19, 1886
26
16
Mt. Carmel Cos. Central Station
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March 22, 1886
26
16
Shamokin Cos. Central Station
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April 2, 1886
26
16
Sunbury Cos. Central Station
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April 10, 1886
26
16
Williamsport Cos. Central Station
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April 16, 1886
26
16
Bellefonta Cos. Central Station
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April 17, 1886
26
16
Johnstown Cos. Central Station
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April, 21, 1886
26
16
Mc Keesfort Cos. Central Station
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April 26, 1886
26
16
Cumberland Cos. Central Station
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April 28, 1886
26
16
Memoranda of central stations at:
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Hazleton, Tamaqua, Ashland, Mt. Carml, and Shamokin
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April 19, 1886
26
16
Williamsport, Bellefonte, Johnstown, Mc Keesport, and Cumberland
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May 18, 1886
26
16
Menlo Park; Electric Train; Incandescence
2.5
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1878-1960
Menlo Park data
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1878-1935
Hammer, "Life of Thomas A. Edison," copied from The Chicago Tribune
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April 8, 1878
27
1
Tests at Menlo Park on Babcock & Willcox Boiler
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1883
27
1
Barker's Exhibit A: table from suit against The United States Electric Lighting Company
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27
1
List of early Edison men, mainly Menlo Park
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27
1
An unidentified list of names
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27
1
Notes relating to the early Edison companies and their associated interests from W.S. Andrews to Hammer
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Nov. 10, 1914
27
1
Notes on Francis R. Upton's test made at the Edison laboratory
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1878
27
1
Exhibits to legal cases, including "Underground Conductor"
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27
1
Francis Jehl, 'Reminiscences of Menlo Park," Ford News
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Feb. 1935
27
1
The Edison Phonoplex System
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27
1
The Success of the Electric Light, North American
Review
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Oct. 1880
27
1
Correspondence
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1893-1925
1893: To Messrs. Pyer and Seeley from Francis Upton regarding lamps at Menlo Park and Goegel (lamp # 4)
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1893
27
1
1913: To Upton from Jehl (copy), basically a biography of Upton at Menlo Park
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1913
27
1
1925: To Mr. Lieb from Hammer regarding "The Story of Menlo Park"
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1925
27
1
Data on Edison Lamps made at Menlo Park
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27
1
Official envelope of the Edison Electric Lamp Co., Menlo Park, N.J.
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27
2
Articles and writings on electric inventions
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1922
An Interview with the Father of the Central Station Industry by L.W. Morrow, Associate Editor of the Electric World
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 9, 1922
27
3
Photographs reproduced in the pages of The Electric Age
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27
3
Photographs reproduced in the pages of The
Electric Age
Articles
Archival Resource Key
27
3
Scope and Contents note
In
The Edison Monthly, The Electric Age, The General Electric Monogram, The Electrical Engineer , Ford News, The Electrical World, Cassier's Magazine, Popular Electricity, and Harper's News Monthly Magazine
Postcard showing the Edison Tower at Menlo Park
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27
3
Diagrams
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27
3
A short account of the first underground system used for incandescent lamps
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27
3
Data on Edison train telegraph
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27
3
Description of the Edison Lamp, The Edison Electric Light Company
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27
3
Lamps and electric wires
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1884-1960
Pamphlets
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27
4
General Electric Co., Train Lighting with G. E. Tungsten and Tantalum Lamps
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
4
The Shelby Electric-Company, How to Sell Lamps, Shelby, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1898
27
4
General Electric Co., Kain Lamp Sales Offices, Harrison,N.J., The Edison Lamps
Archival Resource Key
August, 1906
27
4
U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, The Edison Socket Case: Text of opinion of Judge Lac and Injunction Order, in the case of Edison Electric Light Company against William J. Newton
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 13, 1894
27
4
Die Wechsel and Drehstromgeneratoven
Archival Resource Key
1960
27
4
U.S. Court of Appeals, Northern District of New York, The Edison company Socket Case, Full text of the Opinion of the U. S. Circuit Court
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 14, 1895
27
4
Several loose pages of a pamphlet on electric wires
Archival Resource Key
27
4
General Electric Co., Harrison, N.J., Edison Lamps Standard of the World, pamphlet no. 3366
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
4
General Electric Co.Harrison, N.J., Price List No. 5191, G. E. Tungsten Lamps for Battery Service, Low Volt and Miniature
Archival Resource Key
1908
27
4
General Electric Co.,. Harrison, N.J., Price List No. 5131, Edison Miniature Incandescent Lamps
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 22, 1904
27
4
The Edison United Manufacturing Co., N.Y., Wiring Tables for the use of Edison
Archival Resource Key
April, 1888
27
4
Clippings and loose papers
Archival Resource Key
27
4
Clippings of the London Times, Oct. 6, 1884; the New York Times, March 21, 1924; unidentified news clippings
Archival Resource Key
1884, 1924
27
4
Copy of Horoscope for Feb. 11
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
4
Blue Print diagram of The Standard New Construction Third Ave. Railway, New York
Archival Resource Key
27
4
'Edison Standard Gage; Table of Dimensions, Weight and Resistance of Pure Copper Wires"
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27
4
Several loose prints
Archival Resource Key
27
4
Writings about the light bulb in Menlo Park
Archival Resource Key
1881-1934
Edison Pioneers, The Story of Menlo Park
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
undated
27
5
McGraw-Hill Company Inc., A Glance at Early Electrical Literature
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 21, 1919
27
5
United States Patent office, N.Y., Interference No.27,074, William J. Hammer's sworn statement re. the tungsten Filament
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 18, 1907
27
5
The Count du Moncel, "Incandescent Electric Lamps at the International Exhibition of Electricity," Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, vol. 25
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1881
27
5
J.J. Marshall, "The Development of the Manufacture of the Edison Incandescent Lamp,"March 16, 1905.
Archival Resource Key
1881-1905
27
5
Francis Jehl, "Reminiscences of Menlo Park," Ford News
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1934
27
5
Edison Medal Association's List of executive committee, and of the general committee
Archival Resource Key
27
5
Enlivening Incidents at Menlo Park, The Edison Monthly, New York
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 1923
27
5
W.F.D. Crane, "Table of Electrical Horse Powers"
Archival Resource Key
August 2, 1889
27
5
miscellaneous articles; news clippings
Archival Resource Key
27
5
Booklets containing electrical notes
Archival Resource Key
1881-1930
J.R. McKee and W.S. Andrews, Historical Notes, General Electric Company, New York City
Archival Resource Key
1930
27
6
United States Patent Office, Sawyer and Man vs. Thomas A. Edison
Archival Resource Key
June 10, 1881
27
6
A booklet containing questions relating to meter department; questions and answers relating to running of dynamos; and questions and answers relating to running of engine and boiler. (Booklet not titled)
Archival Resource Key
27
6
The Manufacture of the Edison Mazda Lamps by Henry Schroeder
Archival Resource Key
27
7
Edison Incandescent Lamps for Isolated Plants
Archival Resource Key
27
7
Duffus, R.L. "Our Electric Light has its Jubilee", New York Times
Archival Resource Key
Oct., 1928
27
7
Newspapers; Obituaries
2.6
Archival Resource Key
1929-1931
Articles in the following newspapers
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28
1
Scope and Contents
- New York Times, Oct. 19, 1931, and Oct. 25, 1931
- New York Journal, Oct. 19, 1931
- New York Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1931
- New York American, Oct. 19, 1931, and Oct. 25, 1931
- New York World Telegram, Oct. 19, 1931
- New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 18, 1931
- The New York Sun, Oct. 19, 1931
- and the Philadelphia Record, Oct. 19, 1931
Newspapers carrying articles on the Edison Inventions
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 20, 1929
28
2
Scope and Contents note
Includes articles in the
New York Inquirer, Oct. 19, 1932; the New York World Telegram, August 10-15, 1931; New York Times
Articles on Edison
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1931
28
3
Scope and Contents note
In:
The Boston Globe, Oct. 29,?; The New York Times, Oct. 25, 1931; New American, Oct. 27, 1931; Philadelphia Record, Oct. 19, 1931; New York World Telegram, Oct. 19, 1931; New York, Oct.1931; New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 19, 1931 & Oct. 20,1931
Copy of poem "Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931"1 by H.I. Phillips
Archival Resource Key
28
3
Card announcing private services for Edison from Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison to Mr. Wm. J. Hammer
Archival Resource Key
28
3
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
28
3
Telegram and Articles re Edison's death
Archival Resource Key
1931
28
4
Telegram from W.S. Barstow to major Wm.. J. Hammer announcing the death of Edison
Archival Resource Key
28
4
Various newspaper accounts of Edison's death, and biographical accounts of the life and achievements of Edison
Archival Resource Key
1931
28
4
Newspaper clippings carrying tributes to Edison
Archival Resource Key
28
5
Speeches, Testimonials, Invitations
2.7
Archival Resource Key
1893-1938
Notes on Dinners and Luncheons
Archival Resource Key
1912-1937
The New York Edison Company, Dinner Commemorating Fifty Years of Edison Service: Seating List
Archival Resource Key
Sep. 12, 1932
29
1
The New York Edison Co. Guest List at the Thomas A. Edison Luncheon
Archival Resource Key
3 Copies
Oct. 9, 1912
29
1
The New York Edison Company, Dinner in Honor of Thomas Alva Edison
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
Sept. 11, 1922
29
1
A Dinner in Honor of Thomas Alva Edison Upon the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Invention of the Electric Light and of the Dedication of the Edison Institute of Technologv, Independent Hall, Greenfield, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1,1929
29
1
Edison Celebration Radioed to World", New York Times
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 22, 1929
29
1
Seating List, Dinner to Thomas A. Edison and in Commemoration of Forty years of Edison Services in New York City
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 11, 1929
29
1
A Dinner: To Thomas Alva Edison, Hotel Astor: New York, (two copies)
Archival Resource Key
May 24, 1928
29
1
Edner Treppchen Deinhard, Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of Thomas A. Edison, Menu, L ewellyn Park, Orange, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
Feb. 10, 1912
29
1
Card from Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison to Mr. Hammer, inviting him for dinner on February 12,(?) at Glenmont, Llewellyn Park
Archival Resource Key
29
1
Edison Pioneers, Eighteenth Annual Meeting and Luncheon of the Edison Pioneers and Celebration of the 89th Birthday Anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison, New York (includes Menu)
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 11, 1936
29
1
Edison Pioneers, Nineteenth Annual Meeting and Luncheon of the Edison Pioneers, and Celebration of the 90th Birthday Anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison, New York City, (includes a menu and seating list)
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 11, 1937
29
1
From the President and Board of Directors of the New York Edison Co., to Hammer inviting him for dinner on Sept. 12, 1932
Archival Resource Key
29
1
Supplement to the Oct. 1922 issue of the Edison Monthly, Photograph of attendants at the Testimonial Dinner tendered to Thomas Alva Edison by the New York Edison Company
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 11, 1922
29
1
Medals
Archival Resource Key
1912-1928
Announcement by the Society of Arts and Sciences of the award of its Gold medal for Science to Thomas Alva Edison at a presentation dinner on May 24, 1928
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29
2
American Institute of Electrical Engineers' by-laws of the Edison Medal Committee and deed of gift creating the Edison Medal
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Jan. 1, 1919
29
2
Copy of the Certificate of Award of the Edison Medal to William D. Coolidge
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 15, 1928
29
2
American Institute of Electrical Engineers' by-laws of the Edison Medal Committee and deed of gift creating the Edison medal
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Oct. 15, 1912
29
2
Edison medal Association's list of Committee and Executive Committee members
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29
2
Presentation Ceremonies of the Edison Medal at the Winter Convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to Frank Conrad, Jan. 28, 1931; to Arthur E. Kennelly, Jan. 24, 1934
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29
2
The Edison Celebration, New York World, Nov. 8, 1928 From Robert T. Lozier to Hammer requesting his photograph and autograph
Archival Resource Key
29
2
Copy of the mounted photos of Thomas A. Edison and the Edison medalists, Journal of the A.I.E.E. (American Institute of Electrical Engineers)
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
2
Program, Invitation to Hammer to presentation of Congressional medal awarded to Edison; copy of Joint Resolution 243
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29
2
Edison Medal for 1923 Awarded to John W. Lieb, Journal of the A.I.E.E.
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undated
29
2
Social Occasions
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1915-1929
Card with blue ribbons labeled "Trans-Continental Telephone--Diamond Disc: Edison Day celebration Panama Pacific Exposition, Edison Laboratory, October 21, 1915" (three plastic cards)
Archival Resource Key
29
3
Program of the Civic Forum, National Testimonial to Thomas A.Edison, Carnegie Hall, New York
Archival Resource Key
May 6, 1915
29
3
W.A. Meadowcroft, Notable Events and Achievements in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison, compiled for the Annual meeting of Feb. 11, 1925 celebrating Edison's 78th Birthday
Archival Resource Key
29
3
Invitation card from Mrs. Thomas A. Edison to Hammer inviting Hammer for the celebrations of Mr. Edison's 65th birthday on February 10, 1912
Archival Resource Key
29
3
City of New York Committee, Light's Golden Jubilee, New York Plans Participation in Light's Golden Jubilee
Archival Resource Key
Sep. 19, 1929
29
3
List of names on Cup, Addenda, William S. Andrews
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29
3
Program of Dedication Exercises of the Commemorative
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29
3
Tablet near the site of the Edison laboratories and workshops at Menlo Park, N.J.
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2 Copies
May 16, 1925
29
3
Scope and Contents note
List of guests at the dedication exercises of the commemorative Tablet near the site of Edison Laboratories and workshops at Menlo Park, N.J.
Pamphlet titled "Sixty-five Brilliant Rays"
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5 Copies
29
3
Card from Mrs. Edison to the Edison Pioneers and their families, inviting them to celebrate with her Thomas A. Edison's 74th birthday on February 11, 1921
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29
3
Speeches and Comments
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1893-1938
To Thomas Alva Edison and Guest
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Oct. 21, 1929
29
4
Scope and Contents note
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the dinner at Greenfield, Michigan, given in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Mr. Edison's invention of his incandescent electric light by Henry and Edsel Ford; Hammer's invitation
Note from Henry Ford and Edsel B. Ford to Major Hammer
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 21, 1929
29
4
Henry Ford and Edsel B. Ford
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Oct. 21, 1929
29
4
Scope and Contents note
Your Guide to the Celebration in Honor of Thomas Alva Edison, Oct. 21, 1929, to their guests
From E. E. Hutchison , Chief Engineer, Edison Co., N.J.
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Oct. 16, 1915
29
4
Scope and Contents note
To W. J. Hammer, personal representative of Edison outlining plans for Edison's speech of October 21 over the transcontinental telephone
Thomas Alva Edison addresses delivered at the presentation to Thomas Alva Edison of the medal bestowed upon him by the Congress of the United States
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 20, 1928
29
4
A brochure titled "America Marches Forward with Edison
Archival Resource Key
29
4
List of member, National Committee of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation as of Feb. 10, 1936
Archival Resource Key
29
4
Edison's Part in Radio and Other Notable Achievements, distributed by Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
1930
29
4
Program for Guglielmo Marconi commemoration
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 19, 1938
29
4
Hammer's announcement for 1904-1905 of Popular Scientific Lecture on Radium
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29
4
Articles:
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Journal of the A.I.E.E.., "Edison Medal Awarded to John White Howel,"
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Jan. 1925
29
5
John White Howell, "Lamp Developments in America," Electrical World
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 21, 1925
29
5
A National Museum of Engineering and Industry, Journal of the A. I. E. E., vol. 44
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1925
29
5
The History of an Art, Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps
Archival Resource Key
1904
29
5
The History of an Art,' Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps as set up in the Engineering Societies' Building, New York City
Archival Resource Key
1913
29
5
Material regarding historic wires:
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29
5
The first telegraph message sent around the world by President Roosevelt
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 4, 1903
29
5
Sections of historic wires
Archival Resource Key
29
5
Correspondence regarding wires
Archival Resource Key
29
5
News clippings from the Postal Telegraph, May, 1911; Scientific American Supplement, may 14, 1904; and several unidentified papers
Archival Resource Key
29
5
Tag attached to Niagara cable
Archival Resource Key
29
5
A wire section that carried the current by which President Cleveland electrically started the machinery of the Columbia Exposition
Archival Resource Key
May 1, 1893
29
5
Plastic card bearing the inscription "Section of 'Ferrantis' 10,000 volt underground cable, as used in London, England"
Archival Resource Key
29
5
Material relative to incandescent lamps
Archival Resource Key
1904-1913
Names of Lamps in the William J. Hammer Collection of incandescent electric lamps
Archival Resource Key
1913
29
7
King, Moses. Great Electricians
Archival Resource Key
1909
29
7
Hammer, The William J. Hammer Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1906
29
7
Hammer, The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps, reprint from the transactions of the New York Electrical Society
Archival Resource Key
1913
29
7
List of Edison's lamps
Archival Resource Key
29
7
Announcement regarding electric exhibition at the 10th Anniversary of the Commercial Establishment of Electric Lighting two pamphlets titled The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps, being extracts from the Report of the Commission on " Science and Arts" of the "Elliot-Cresson" Gold Medal to Hammer
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1906
29
7
Extracts from letters relative to Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps
Archival Resource Key
29
7
Thomas A. Edison, "The Beginning of the Incandescent Lamp," Scientific American Supplement, no. 1480
Archival Resource Key
May 14, 1904
29
7
Miscellaneous notes and scraps
Archival Resource Key
29
8
General Reference Articles On Edison
2.8
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undated
Edison obituaries
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30
1
Franklin Experimental Club
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30
1
General reference articles on Edison (a)
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30
1
General reference articles on Edison (b)
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30
1
General reference articles on Edison (c)
Archival Resource Key
30
1
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
30
1
Publications
Archival Resource Key
1890-1936
Catalogue of the exhibit of Edison's inventions at the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition 1890, together with a general description of his work, New York City
Archival Resource Key
1890
30
7
The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps, extract from the report of the Commission on "Science and Arts" of the Franklin Institute in making the award of the "Elliot-Cresson" Gold Medal to Hammer
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1906
30
7
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y., Edison Mazda Lamps for Standard Electric Railway Service, bulletin No. 4947A
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1913
30
7
John W. Lieb, The Edison System of Electric Light, a presidential address presented at the third annual meeting of the Edison Pioneers held at the Edison Laboratories, Orange, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 11, 1920
30
7
Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison at Seventy-three, New York
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1920
30
7
The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 24, 1924
30
7
Association o Edison Illuminating Companies, Collection of Historic Electrical Apparatus, Instruments, Material and Documents
Archival Resource Key
January, 1925
30
7
The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Mar 25, 1924
30
7
Addresses delivered at the dedication of the commemorative tablet near the site of the Edison Laboratories and workshops at Menlo Park, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
May 16, 1925
30
7
The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1925
30
7
Arthur E. Kennelly, Biographical Memoir of Thomas Alva Edison, Washington, 1933
Archival Resource Key
1847-1931
30
7
The Edison Monthly
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1927-1928
30
7
Official proceedings, New York Railroad Club
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1936
30
7
Publications
Archival Resource Key
undated
Instructions for Edison Light- o-matic Radio Receivers by Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
30
8
Edison's Life and His Favorite Invention issued by Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N.J.
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30
8
The Story of Menlo Park by Edison Pioneers
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30
8
The Life & Achievements of Thomas Edison
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1890-1931
Edison, Thomas A., Inc., "The Events and Achievements in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison"
Archival Resource Key
30
9
Stieringer, Luther, "The Life and Inventions of Thomas A Edison"
Archival Resource Key
1890
30
9
Edison, Mrs. Thomas, "Wizard of Electricity"
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30
9
From Train 'Butcher' to World's Greatest Inventor, Reading Railroad Magazine
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30
9
Edison, General Electric Review
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1931
30
9
Edison Storage Battery Data; Edison Electric Illuminating Company
2.9
Archival Resource Key
1884-1927
H.B. Coho, An Historical Review of the Storage Battery, reprint of a paper read at New York City
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 16, 1903
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., Orange, N.J., The Edison
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31
1
Storage Battery for Operation Type B Cells-General Information and Instruction
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1917
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Edison Storage Battery for Railway Signals
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1912
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Edison Storage Battery for Electric Commercial Vehicles
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1915
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Trend Toward Light Weight in Transportation, copyrighted 1928
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31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Edison Electric Safety Mine Lamp, Bulletin 300
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Edison Electric Safety Mine Lamp, Bulletin 300, Model E, Bulletin 300
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., Edison Storage Batteries for use in Storage Battery Locomotives, Bulletin 608
Archival Resource Key
undated
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., Edison Storage Battery in Lumber Transportation, Bulletin 610
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undated
31
1
Edison Storage Battery Co., The Edison Storage Battery for Meter Testing, Bulletin 820
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undated
31
1
Edison Batteries Afloat
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undated
31
2
Edison Storage Battery Co., Orange, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
31
2
Scope and Contents note
A red folder containing a pamphlet titled "The Edison Storage Battery"; and a number of blueprints relative to the Edison storage battery. Included are a list of standard curves, descriptive data, physical data, data on standard bottomless trays, on trays with bottom, discharge data applying to individual cells, etc.
Writings about Edison Electric Illuminating Company by Francis Jehl , "Boston Theatre, Boston, Mass, December 1882," The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Dec., 1927
31
3
Kennelly, Arthur E. "The New Edison Storage Battery"
Archival Resource Key
May 25, 1901
31
3
License to Boston Edison Co. to operate under Edison Patents
Archival Resource Key
January 29, 1886
31
3
Hammer, a circular titled "Survival of the Fittest: Advantages of the Edison Incandescent Light Over Gas and other Illuminants"
Archival Resource Key
1886
31
3
List of executive officers
Archival Resource Key
1887
31
3
Mansfield, E.S. "The Edison System in Boston -- Development and Present Status," Electrical World and Engineer
Archival Resource Key
May 18, 1901
31
3
Boston Electric Illuminating Company:
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Graphic diagram showing variation of load on each day of the week in the Central Station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, Mass.,
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Nov. 18, 1886
31
4
Graphic Chart showing variation of load (not dated) Diagrams of tube sections
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Dec 15, 1886
31
4
Diagram showing Manager's Photometer, designed and built by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
June 16, 1887
31
4
Diagrams showing various aspects of the Edison Meter
Archival Resource Key
July 15, 1887
31
4
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
December 15, 1884, and April 30, 1887
31
5
Hammer's work card
Archival Resource Key
31
5
Newspaper Articles
Archival Resource Key
31
5
Sample copies of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company's work agreement
Archival Resource Key
31
5
Test on "Fulgor" Storage Batteries (made by and under supervision of Hammer);
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31
6
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
31
6
Phonographs
2.10
Archival Resource Key
1888-1930
Publications
Archival Resource Key
1888-1926
Berliner, Emile
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32
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"The Development of the Talking machine,"
Journal of the Franklin Institute, August 1913; "Technical Notes on the Gramophone , Journal of the Franklin Institute Dec. 15, 1905; The Gramophone, paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, reprinted 1909; Three Addresses,1910-1913: "The Loose Contact Transmitter," "A Reminiscence," and "The development of the Talking Machine"
Edison, Thomas A. The Perfected Phonograph
Archival Resource Key
June 1888
32
1
Harrison, H.C. & Maxfield, J.P. "High Quality Recording and Reproducing of Music & Speech"
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Aug. 1926
32
1
Scientific American
Archival Resource Key
April 26, 1890
32
2
Electricity
Archival Resource Key
May 31, 1893
32
2
Andrews, W. S. "Notes on the Testing & Installation of Edison Bipolar Dynamos ," 1880-1886. General Electric Review Reprints
Archival Resource Key
Sep. 1924
32
2
The Belt Driven Edison Bipolar Dynamos
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1924
32
2
The Micro-Graphophone, Science
Archival Resource Key
May 9, 1890
32
2
The Micro-Graphophone, Science
Edison Phonographs, National Phonograph Co.
Archival Resource Key
32
2
The Father of the Phonograph, The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1924
32
2
Infinite Practical Uses of the Phonograph, brochure
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
2
Inspectors Handbook of the Phonograph, Edison Phonograph Works
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 1889
32
2
Book proofs - The Telephonograph (two pages)
Archival Resource Key
32
2
Instructions for the management and operation of Edison's Speaking Phonograph, New York Tribune
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
2
Phonogram, a monthly Magazine devoted to the science of sound and recording of speech, vol. 2, no. 10
Archival Resource Key
1891
32
2
news clippings
Archival Resource Key
32
2
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1889-1930
Hammer's letter to Congressman Curry, 1927 (Letters and papers connected with obtaining original phonograph from South Kensington Patent office London, 1928) Hammer Letter to F.A. Wardlare
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 31, 1929
32
3
List of phonograph patents by Hammer
Archival Resource Key
1903
32
4
Crystal Record - ARC Laboratories, 96 Fifth Ave., New York
Archival Resource Key
32
5
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
32
6
Early Companies; Material Regarding Legal Proceedings; Misc. Script; 1898 Map of Borough of Brooklyn
2.11
Archival Resource Key
1891-1922
Articles on Pioneer Edison Cos.
Archival Resource Key
1891-1922
Wetzler, Joseph. "The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York," The Electrical Engineer, vol. 21, no. 401
Archival Resource Key
January 8, 1896
33
1
_____. "The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn-Its Development and Its Present and Future Work," Reprinted from The Electrical Engineer, vol. 25, No. 505
Archival Resource Key
January 6, 1898
33
1
The Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company, LTD. Seventh annual report for the year ending June 30, 1891
Archival Resource Key
33
1
Martin, T. C., "Edisonia, A Survey of the Edison Light and Power Industries" reprinted from The Electrical Engineer, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
August 12, 1891
33
1
The Chicago Edison Company, Its History and Work, The Electrical Engineer, vol. 19, no. 351
Archival Resource Key
January 23, 1895
33
1
Twenty Five Years of the National Electric Light Association, Electrical Review and Western Electrician
Archival Resource Key
May 21, 1910
33
1
"Four Other Pioneer Edison Companies," Electrical World
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 9, 1922
33
1
Some Recent Important Articles on the Latest Price in Central Station Work
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
1
General Electric Formation
Archival Resource Key
1898-1916
The Early Days of the General Electric Company, an address of William J. Clark
Archival Resource Key
1915
33
2
Hammer's Notes
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33
2
Agreement between Edison & Upton
Archival Resource Key
33
2
Correspondence with Ralph J. Baker, Walter H. Johnson
Archival Resource Key
Joseph B. McCall of the Philadelphia Electric Co.
Archival Resource Key
Dec.9, 1915, to June 12, 1916
33
3
Correspondence with Ashley T. Cole of Hatch & Sheehan
Archival Resource Key
July 3, 1915, to Oct 16, 1915
33
3
Pamphlets regarding illuminating companies; the Edison United Manufacturing Co.; and "The Most Notable Step in Years'." by Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co., Harrison, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
33
4
Legal matters: testimonies, memorandum of agreement, license agreements, and statements
Archival Resource Key
33
5
Black folder containing testimony of Hammer in case No. 1540: Albert Moritz vs. Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Brooklyn
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 29, 1915
33
6
The Sieuieus Electric Railroad Case: testimony of Hammer, first witness for Thomas Edison
Archival Resource Key
1898
33
7
1898 Map of the borough of Brooklyn
Archival Resource Key
1898
33
8
Miscellaneous: checks drawn Hudson Trust Co.; notes to and from the Philadelphia Electric Co,; bills; and miscellaneous original scripts
Archival Resource Key
33
9
Edison's Patents
2.12
Archival Resource Key
1881-1915
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1881; 1893; 1902; 1915
34
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Depositions of Hammer and Peter H. Vander Weyde in the case Edison Electric Light Co. vs. Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co.
Archival Resource Key
34
2
First Classifications ever made of the patents of Thomas Alva Edison prepared by Hammer: on batteries
Archival Resource Key
34
3
Lists of U.S. Patents of Thomas A. Edison not controlled by General Electric Co.
Archival Resource Key
1902
34
4-5
U.S. Patents-of T. A. Edison vol. 4
Archival Resource Key
1890-1891
34
5
List of U.S. Patents of Thomas A. Edison owned by General Electric Co.
Archival Resource Key
34
5
Patent lists
Archival Resource Key
34
6
Edison's Record, Volume 2, a bound volume prepared as a court exhibit includes patent applications and drawings)
Archival Resource Key
90
Litigation Of Edison Patents
2.13
Archival Resource Key
1882-1915
U.S. Circuit Court (Eastern District of Missouri). Edison Electric Lighting Co. vs. Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co. et al:
Archival Resource Key
Defendants' Affidavits in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Archival Resource Key
35
Complete Set, Complainant Geobel Affidavits
Archival Resource Key
35
Circuit Court of the U.S. (Southern District of New York)
Archival Resource Key
36
The Edison Electric Light Co. vs. The United States Electric Lighting Company (Defendant)
Archival Resource Key
36
In Equity, #3445
Archival Resource Key
June 11, 1886; Jan. 20, 1890; and April 7, 1890
36
U.S. Circuit Court (District of Mass.) Edison Elec. Light Co. vs. Beacon Vacuum Pump & Elec. Co. et al
Archival Resource Key
1893
37
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Scope and Contents note
Defendants' Affidavits; Additional Affidavits for Defendants' in opposition to motion for preliminary injunction; depositions
U.S. Circuit Court (Eastern District of Wisconsin) Edison E1ectric Light Co. vs. Electric Manufacturing Co.
Archival Resource Key
1893
37
2
Scope and Contents note
Brief for complainants, on motion for preliminary injunction; Complainants Goebel Affidavits
U.S. Circuit Court (Dist. of Conn.) Edison Elec. Light Co.& Edison G.E. vs. Waring Elect. Co
Archival Resource Key
1893
37
3
Scope and Contents note
Complainants' Rebutting Affidavits on Motion for preliminary injunction for infringement of letters patent # 223,898; Moving papers on motion for preliminary injunction for infringement of letters patent # 223,898
U.S. Circuit Court (Western Dist. of Penn.) Edison Elect Light Co. and Edison General Electric Co. vs. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing et al
Archival Resource Key
1893
37
4
Scope and Contents note
Defendants' Paper on Rule to Cause; Full Text of Judge Green's opinion (Edison Feeder Patent)
Sawyer and Man vs. Edison (The Westinghouse-Edison Case)
Archival Resource Key
37
5
Scope and Contents note
Testimony on behalf of Edison, 1881; Full text of Justice Bradley's opinion in the Case of the Consolidated Co. against the McKeesport Co., filed in the U.S. Circuit Court at Pittsburgh, October 5, 1889
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (N.Y.), Waring Electric Co. vs. Edison Electric Light Co.
Archival Resource Key
1894
37
6
Scope and Contents note
Brief for Complainants, Appellees
Fibrous Carbon Case
Archival Resource Key
37
7
Scope and Contents note
Consolidated Electric Light Co.,Complainant, Appellant, vs. McKeesport Light Co.,Defendant, Appellee, 1895: Justice Bradley's decision
Before U.S. Patent office Cazin, F.M.F. vs. Welsback Light Co.
Archival Resource Key
1899
37
8
Scope and Contents note
Deposition (testimony) by R.M.F. Cazin Patent #844, 778; "Rare-oxide Incandescent Lamps" by Cazin,
The Electrical Age
Louis W. Downes, Appellant vs. Teter-Heany Developing Co.
Archival Resource Key
1905-1907
37
9
Scope and Contents note
Opinion and Decision
Shunted Motor Controller Case, GE Co. vs. Garnett Coal Co.
Archival Resource Key
1906
37
10
Scope and Contents note
Opinion - Court of Appeals
Suspended Switch Case (Van Depoelep patent no. 424,695)
Archival Resource Key
1897
37
11
Scope and Contents note
Final Decree & injunction
The Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company vs. Holland
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38
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Scope and Contents note
First Day, Dec. 1, 1888; Second Day, Dec. 3,1888; and Third Day, Dec. 4, 1888
The Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company vs. Holland cont.
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38
2
Scope and Contents note
Fourth Day, Dec. 6, 1888; Fifth Day, Dec.7, 1888; Sixth Day, Dec. 8, 1888
The Edison Swan United Electric Light Company vs. Holland, con't.
Archival Resource Key
38
3
Scope and Contents note
Seventh Day, Dec. 10, 1888; Eight Day, Dec. 11, 1888; Ninth Day, Dec. 13, 1888; and Judgment, February 18, 1889
Incandescent Lamp Cases, Full texts of opinion of judges, and full text of injunction orders
Archival Resource Key
July 14, 1891-Jan.11, 1895; undated
38
4
Public Service Commission, State of N.Y. (First District): In the Matter of the Complaint of Albert-Moritz et al against Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Brooklyn, Case No 1540
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 10, 1912
38
5
Scope and Contents note
Brief and Argument for the Edison Elec. Illuminating. Co..of Brooklyn
Public Service Commission, State of N.Y. (First District): In the matter of the Complaint of Albert Moritz against the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Brooklyn, Case No. 1540
Archival Resource Key
38
6
Scope and Contents note
Hammer's testimonies
Interference #23,076 between application of Glenn H. Curtiss and John C. Burkhart and others
Archival Resource Key
39
1
Scope and Contents note
Preliminary statement of Curtiss, and other related materials
The Wright Company (Complainant) vs. Louis Paulhan (Defendant)
Archival Resource Key
39
1
Scope and Contents note
Hammer's sworn statement in the Circuit Court of the United States, State of New York, County of New York, March 11, 1910
An untitled and undated statement by an unnamed inventor
Archival Resource Key
39
1
Scope and Contents note
Re: invention relating to improvements in Aeronautical Apparatus
U.S. Patent Office
Archival Resource Key
39
1
Scope and Contents note
Specification of Letters of Patent No.1,264,560, patented April 30, 1918; and Specification of Letters of Patent No. 1,203,601, patented June 3,1919
Drawings of Patents; Specifications forming parts of Patents re motor, Electric Motor and generator, Electric apparatus for use in railway trains, Self-Regulating Dynamo; Electric-Generating System etc.
Archival Resource Key
June 13, 1882-Oct. 19, 1915
39
2
Specifications forming part of Letters of Patents, April 7, 1885-Nov. 3, 1908; Drawings of Patents; xeroxed article from Scientific American Dec. 22, 1900
Archival Resource Key
1885-1908
39
3
Edison Pioneers
2.14
Archival Resource Key
1918-1943
Pioneers' constitution and bv-laws
Archival Resource Key
1918, 1921
40
1
Pioneers' constitution and by-laws
Archival Resource Key
1923, 1929, 1934, 1941
40
2
Obituaries: In memoriam - Acheson To Francis
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40
3
Obituaries: In memoriam - Gardner to mungle
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40
4
Obituaries: In memoriam - Nichols to Wynkoop
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40
5
Story of Menlo Park
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41
1
Annual meeting and luncheon
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1920-1943
41
1
Scope and Contents note
Announcements, seating arrangements
Articles regarding Edison Pioneers - individual members
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41
1
Articles by Francis Jehl and correspondence re: Jehl
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41
1
Certificate of membership and insignia
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41
1
Invitations
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41
1
Commemorative tablet, Menlo Park N.Y.
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41
1
Correspondence re organization of Pioneers January 1918; preparations for autobiographical notes by Pioneers 1919-1922
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January 1918, 1919-1922
41
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Edison Park - Report of Commissioners
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1938
41
1
Edison Towers
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41
1
News of the Edison Pioneers #2
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1943
41
1
Presidential addresses
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1918, 1920, 1922, 1924
41
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Miscellaneous
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41
1
Microfilm, reel 1, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Series 1
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undated
108
Microfilm, reel 2, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Series 1 and Series 2
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undated
108
Microfilm, reel 3, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Series 2
Archival Resource Key
undated
108
Microfilm, reel 4, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Series 2
Archival Resource Key
undated
108
Microfilm, reel 5, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Series 2 and Series 3
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undated
108
Westinghouse Electric Company vs. Poughkeepsie Electric Light and Power Company, bill of complaint
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1887
109
1
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company and Edison Electric Iluminating Company of Boston and Albert Anderson, agreement
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1887
109
2
Edison lamp data
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1882
109
3
Photographs of Edison Menlo Park Railways
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1880, 1882
109
6
Siemens Electric Railroad case, testimony of William Hammer
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1898
109
7
Siemen and Halkse case materials
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1898-1899
109
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First electric railroad map
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1880-05-13
109
9
Scrapbook (partial) related to electric railway
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1880-1898
109
10
"Thomas Edison...Menlo Park" by Francis Jehl, laboratory assistant
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1910
109
11
Photocopies of select Thomas A. Edison Patents related to electric railways
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1890s
109
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Reference Materials
Series 3
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1870-1989
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of thirty-four boxes of reference materials, including advertisements, articles, bulletins, catalogues and guides, gazettes, journals, pamphlets, news clippings, portraits, scientific papers, scrapbooks, and theses. These materials furnish information on many aspects of electricity including electric lamps, electric trains, electric railways, electric signs, the domestic application of electricity, and biographical materials relating to the history of electricity; the Poulsen telephone; storage batteries; and World Expositions. There is also reference material on phosphorescence; radium; selenium; U.S. patent specifications and other patent materials. The last two boxes in the series contain miscellaneous reference materials.
Expositions
3.1
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1881-1904
Official Catalogue, Crystal Palace International Electrical Exhibition
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1881-1882
42
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Official Catalogue, International Electrical and Gas Exhibition
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1882-1883
42
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Report on the Exhibits at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, by Ensign Frank J. Sprague of the United States Navy
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1882
42
2
Official Catalogue and Guide, Electrical Exhibition
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1892
42
2
News clippings on the Crystal Palace Exhibits
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42
2
Scope and Contents note
From the
Daily Chronicle, February, 1882; Daily News, February,1882; Christian World, March, 1882; and the London Times, September, 1888
Illustration: Edison at the International Electrical Exhibition Philadelphia, Pa.
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42
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Paper concerning the Franklin Institute Exhibition of 1884 official Catalogue, Electrical Exhibition, Philadelphia
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1884
42
3
Scope and Contents note
"Alfred F. Moore, Manufacturer of Insulated Electric Wire for Telegraph, Telephone, Electric Light "
A Nocturnal Fairyland, The Commercial Gazette
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June 10,1884
42
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General Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Exhibitions: the Franklin Institute
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1885
42
3
Official Guide of the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, Cincinnati, Ohio, published by John F.C. Mullen
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1888
42
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Illustrations from the Centennial Exposition of Cincinnati
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42
4
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., The Radiophone, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis
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1904
42
5
Columbia Exhibition: Penn. RR Exhibit
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1893
42
6
World Expositions
3.2
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1873-1916
Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers
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1873
43
1
Electric lighting pamphlet, with instructions for the proper inspection of equipment
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1882
43
2
Transactions of the International Electrical Congress, St Louis, vol. 1
Archival Resource Key
1904
43
3
Proceedings of the International Electrical Congress, Chicago
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1893
43
3
Electric Power, contributors for 1895
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1895
43
4
The National Electrical Code by Pierce and Richardson
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1896
43
5
Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
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May 1903
43
6
Universal Exposition St. Louis, 1904, Rules and Regulations Governing the System of Awards
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43
7
Transactions of the New York Electrical Society, *The Effect of the Telephone on Modern Industrial and Social Life" by Herbert N. Casson
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1910
43
8
Clippings:
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Electricity as an Entertainer Electrical Review
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May 30, 1891
43
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The American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Electrical Age
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June 1891
43
9
The Ries Regulating Lamp Sockets by Hammer, The Electrical Engineer
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43
9
List of the domestic and foreign jurors in the electricity section of the International Jury of Awards of the Universal Exposition, St. Louis
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1904
43
9
Ryan, Walter D'Arcy, "Illumination of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition"
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Feb. 1916
43
9
World Expositions (Paris Exposition)
3.3
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1881-1900
Official catalog, Exposition Internationale d'Electricite, Paris
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1881
44
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Report on the incandescent lamps exhibited at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris
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1881
44
2
International Exposition of Electricity, Paris
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1881
44
3
Scope and Contents note
Report of the Subcommission on Incandescent Lamps
The Joblochkoff Electric Light at the Paris Electrical Exhibition - Reprint from "Engineering"
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44
4
Incandescent Electric Lights with Particular Reference to the Edison Lamps at the Paris Exhibition
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44
5
Various articles on Edison's exhibit at the Paris Exposition
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44
6
Scope and Contents note
From
New York World, 1889; New York Herald, 1889; and Electrical World
Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris Translation of the General Classification published by the U.S. Commission.
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44
7
Exposition 1900, "Congress International des Tramways"
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44
8
Paris and its Exhibition Guide written in English by the Pall Mall Gazette, London
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44
9
General Catalog of "Exposition Universelle Internationale," Paris
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1900
44
10
Hering, Carl, "The Paris Exposition of 1901"
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44
11
L'Electricite a L'Exposition de 1900
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44
12
Congres International D'Electricite, Paris
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Aug. 18-25,1900
44
13
Paris Exposition: exhibition album
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1889
95
Revue de L'Exposition Universelle de 1889 (in French)
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91
Incandescent Lighting Material
3.4
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1879-1941
Identified Articles
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1884-1941
The Relation between the initial and average efficiency of Incandescent Electric Lamps by William H. Preece - given before AEEE
Archival Resource Key
1889
45
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New Incandescent Lamps by J. Swinburne, The Illuminating Engineer
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1907
45
1
Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps by George Loring, The National Electrical Contractor
Archival Resource Key
45
1
A Life and Efficiency Test of Incandescent Lamps by Professor B. F. Thomas
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45
1
Standard specification for the purchase of carbon filament incandescent lamps - Department of Commerce and Labor
Archival Resource Key
May 1, 1907
45
1
Index to Arpad von Barber's Collection of Incandescent lamps, sockets, and switches
Archival Resource Key
1884-1892
45
1
The manufacture of Incandescent Mazda Lamps by James D. Mall, Electrical Engineering
Archival Resource Key
1941
45
1
"Appareils Nouveaux," Central Society of Chemical Products
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July 1902
45
1
Articles and clippings (from Electric World, Electrical Review, and the Electrical World and Engineer among others)
Archival Resource Key
45
2-6
Advertisements (including among others: The Sterling Electrical Mfg. Co., Warren Ohio; Bernstein Electric Mfg. Co.; Consolidated Electric Lamp Co.; Tipless Lamp Co., Hudson Street, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
45
7
Tungsten 1amps (including articles from New York Times, Western Electrician, The Electrical Engineer)
Archival Resource Key
45
8
Tantalum amps
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45
9
The Invention and Development of the Incandescent Electric Light by Albert E. Fay, Thesis for the degree of Master of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1, 1900
45
10
Articles on Betty Lamp
Archival Resource Key
45
11
Nernst Lamp Material
Archival Resource Key
45
12
Misc. Manuscripts
Archival Resource Key
45
13
G774:H774, "The Emissivity of Metals and oxides, 1: Nickel oxide (Nio) in the Range 600 to 1300 degrees C.," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of Bureau of Standards, no. 224
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April 15, 1914
46
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Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 11
______. "The Emissivity of Metals and Oxides, 11: Measurements with the Micropyometer," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 242
Archival Resource Key
October 24, 1914
46
1
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from Bulletin o Bureau of Standards, vol. 11
GE Mazda Compensator and Low Volt Incandescent Lamps, General Electric Co.
Archival Resource Key
Jul7 1910
46
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Foote, Paul D. "The Emissivity of Metals and oxides, 111: The Total Emissivity of Platinum and the Relationship Between Total Emissivity and Resistivity," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 243
Archival Resource Key
January 30, 1915
46
1
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 11
Middlekauff, G. W., B. Maulligan, & i.F. Skogland, "Life Testing of Incandescent Lamps at the Bureau of Standards," Dept of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 265
Archival Resource Key
March 16, 1916
46
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Hyde, Edward P. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, On the Theory of the Matthews and the Russell Leonard Photometers for the Measurement of Mean Spherical and Mean Hemispherical Intensities
Archival Resource Key
1905
46
1
Scope and Contents note
Reprints from Bulletin No. 2, Bureau of Standards
______. A Comparison of the Unit of Luminous intensity of the United States with those of Germany, England, and France, Dept. of Commerce and Labor Reprint No. 50
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January 15, 1907
46
1
Scope and Contents note
From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol 3, no. 1, 1907.
Hyde, Edward P., and H.B. Brooks, An Efficiency Meter for Electric Incandescent Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 30
Archival Resource Key
1906
46
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Scope and Contents note
From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 2, no. 1. 1906
Hyde, Edward P. and Francis E. Cady, On the Determination of the Mean Horizontal Intensity of Incandescent Lamps by Rotating Lamps Method, Dept. of Commerce a"n Labor, Reprint No. 43
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1907
46
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Scope and Contents note
From Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 2, no. 3
______. On the Determination of the Mean Horizontal Intensity of Incandescent Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 60
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1907
46
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Scope and Contents note
From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 3, no. 3
______. A Comparative Studv of Plain and Frosted Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 72
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1907
46
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Scope and Contents note
From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 4, no. 1
Pamphlets: A - D
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1901-1917
American Electrician, Portraits of Founders of Electrical Science
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46
3
An Efficiency Meter for Electric Incandescent Lamps Department of Commerce & Labor
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1906
46
3
Baker & Co., Inc., Platinum
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46
3
Burrows, Robert P., "Small Incandescent Lamps and Special Illumination Problems"
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Sept 20-23, 1915
46
3
Candy, F.E. and Luckiesh, M. "Artifical Daylight--Its Production and Use"
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Sept 21-24, 1914
46
3
Candy, F.E. et al Report of the Committee on Progress
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1916-1917
46
3
Darrah, W.A., Some Theoretical Considerations of Light
Production Dept. 2-165
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1913
46
3
Die eleftrifche Beleuchtunq
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1901
46
3
Pamphlets: E to H
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1882-1934
The Economist, "The Nernst Lamp"
Archival Resource Key
46
4
The Electrician, "Dynamo Electric Exploders"
Archival Resource Key
August 12,1882
46
4
Ely, Robert B., Church Lighting
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46
4
Fisher Jr., B.F., "improvements in the Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps"
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46
4
Gale, Horace B. "Experiments on the Efficiency of Incandescent Electric Lamps," Van Nostrand's Engineer magazine
Archival Resource Key
July 1884
46
4
Harrison, Ward, and Evans J. Edwards, "Some Studies in Accuracy of Photometry,' a paper read at the 7th annual convention of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Archival Resource Key
46
4
Hammer, Notes on the Historical Development of the Incandescent Lamp
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46
4
Hartman, L. W., "The Conduction Losses from Carbon Filaments when Heated to Incandescence in Various Gases'
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46
4
_____. "The Heat Losses Fran Incandescent Filaments in Air"
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46
4
Hedges, Willingworth W., Central- Station Electric Lighting, London
Archival Resource Key
1887
46
4
W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., Catalogue of Books and Journals Bearing on Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Chemistry, Cambridge, England
Archival Resource Key
1934
46
4
Hering, Carl, The Most Economical Age of Incandescent Lamps, New York
Archival Resource Key
1893
46
4
Hoadley, Geo. A., "Monograph on Illumination," San Franciso
Archival Resource Key
1920
46
4
Howell, John W., The Incandescent Lamp of Today, New York and Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1902
46
4
_____. Metal Filament Lamps, New York
Archival Resource Key
1910
46
4
Hyde, Edward P. "An Explanation of the Short Life of Frosted Lamps," Electrical Review
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 6, 1907
46
4
Pamphlets: H - L
Archival Resource Key
1882-1927
Grimston's New Gas-Burner. Reprint from the Journal of Gas Lighting, & C.
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 5, 1882
46
5
Kingsburg, Edwin F., Experiments in the Illumination of a Sunday - School Room with Gas, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Archival Resource Key
1913
46
5
Jamieson, Andrew, "Tests of Incandescent Lamps for Fall of Resistance with Increase of Electro-motive Force and Ratio of Candle-power to Work Done on Lamp"
Archival Resource Key
April 13, 1882
46
5
LIGHT
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1927
46
5
Illuminating Engineering Society Light: Its Use and Misuse, New York
Archival Resource Key
1912
46
5
Illuminating Engineering Society, Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Easton, Pa.
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1917
46
5
Incandescent Lamps by Wilcox
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1900
46
5
Lampes a Incandescence Nernst, a card from Paris Expo
Archival Resource Key
Sep. 3, 1900
46
5
Transaction of Illuminating Engineering Society (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
46
5
Lieb, John W. "Leonardo Da Vinci, Engineer and Artist", Stevens Indicator, Vol. 31, no. 2
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1914
46
5
_____.The History of the Incandescent Electric Lamp, New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
1919
46
5
Pamphlets: M-W
Archival Resource Key
1879-1930
Moore Electrical Co., "Tests and comparisons of the Moore Electric Light" extracts from the Illuminating Engineer for June and July
Archival Resource Key
1906
46
6
MacKay, G.M. The Characteristics of Gas- Filled Lamps
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1914
46
6
National Electric Light Association, Cleveland Ohio, Data Booklet on Carbon, Gem, Tantahim and Tungsten
Archival Resource Key
46
6
Nostrand, D. Van., Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine
Archival Resource Key
January 1882
46
6
Page, A.D. Incandescent Lamps: Their Use and Abuse GE Co.
Archival Resource Key
July 1894
46
6
Preece, W.H., "Recent Wonders of Electricity" Journal of the Society of Arts
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 13, 1882
46
6
The Pennsylvania State College Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1, 1910
46
6
The Franklin Institute, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. CL., No. 4
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1900
46
6
Randal, J.E., "Recent Developments in the Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps," Chicago
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1911
46
6
Revue: The Magazine of Light, Vol. 1, No. 6; and Vol. 1, No. 8
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1929, Jan. 1930
46
6
Servir, Edourd, Lampe Clamond, Paris
Archival Resource Key
1882
46
6
Sharp, Clayton H., New Types of Incandescent Lamps, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
1906
46
6
Schroeder, Henry, History of Incandescent Lamp Manufacture, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
1911
46
6
The Incandescent Lamp-Its History
Archival Resource Key
1923
46
6
Schroeder, Henry, Electric Bulbs for Automobiles, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
1906
46
6
Sharp, Clayton H. "The Photometry of Gas Filled Incandescent Lamps"
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1914
46
6
Ultra - Violet Ray Sterilization Co., The Perfect Sterilization of Water, Philadelphia, Pa.
Archival Resource Key
46
6
Weaver, W.D. Incandescent Lamp Economy
Archival Resource Key
1885
46
6
Woodbury, C.J.H., Recent Developments in the Electrical Transmission of Power, Boston, Mass.
Archival Resource Key
1893
46
6
Serrel, Lemuel Wm. "The Handling of Freight by Electric Roads," The Electrical Age
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1904
46
6
Westinghouse Madza Lamps, Better Light for Efficient Work
Archival Resource Key
46
6
Woodbury, C.J.H., Electrical Transmission of Power for Cotton Mills
Archival Resource Key
1892
46
6
Clippings
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47
1
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings of
Scientific America, the Daily News, the Morning Advertiser, the New York- Times, the Electrician, Boston Record, Harpers Weekly, New York Herald, the New York Sun, the New York World, the New York Tribune, Mount Pleasant Monthly, and the Daily Graphic
Pages of Scientific American Supplement, No. 162; No. 283
Archival Resource Key
February 8, 1879; June 4, 1881
47
2
Electricity: Lamps: Distribution Systems
3.5
Archival Resource Key
1879-1901
Articles concerning electric lamps and their inventors
Archival Resource Key
48
1
Articles concerning electric lamps
Archival Resource Key
48
2
Scrapbook on incandescent lamps
Archival Resource Key
48
3
New York Herald
Archival Resource Key
December 21, 1879
48
4
Scope and Contents note
articles describing Edison lamps and lighting system
Electricity: commercial applications
Archival Resource Key
48
5
Pamphlets:
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Incandescent Lamps for Isolated Plants, General Electric Company
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 23, 1901
48
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Das Edison Licht, Berlin
Archival Resource Key
1882
48
6
Elektriche Beleuchtung von Theatern, Berlin
Archival Resource Key
1884
48
6
Illustrated catalogue of "Electric Light and Power Supply," the Electric Supply Co., Chicago
Archival Resource Key
March 1892
48
7
National Electric Light Association materials
Archival Resource Key
48
8
Storage Batteries, Electrical Devices: News Clippings
3.6
Archival Resource Key
1879-1882
Scrapbook of various articles on the electric storage battery
Archival Resource Key
49
1
Scrapbook of clippings from Scientific American
Archival Resource Key
1879-1882
49
2
Scrapbook of clippings from Scientific American
Archival Resource Key
1880-1882
49
3
Storage and secondary batteries
Archival Resource Key
49
4
Electrical devices
Archival Resource Key
49
5
Telephony: News Clippings
3.7
Archival Resource Key
1879-1884
Telephony
Archival Resource Key
50
1
Scrapbook of various newspaper & magazine clippings on the telephone
Archival Resource Key
1879-1884
50
2
General electricity
Archival Resource Key
50
3
Alternating currents and high frequencies
Archival Resource Key
50
4
Domestic Applications Of Electricity: Early Home, Appliances
3.8
Archival Resource Key
1892-1928
Baker, Ray Stannard, "New Music for an old World," McClures Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 1906
51
1
Bell Laboratories, Synchronized Reproduction of Sound and Scene
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1928
51
1
Chapman, Harold, "The Wireless Electrical City of the Future," New York Daily Tribune
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 12, 1909
51
1
Electrocraft, "Heating by Incandescent Lamps"
Archival Resource Key
51
1
Hillman, H.W., "An Electric Day," Good Housekeeping
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1906
51
1
Hillman, H.W., "An Electric Day,"
Good Housekeeping
An Electric Day, page 619, [magazine article]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Ink on paper
9.9" x 6.6"
June 1906
English.
51
1
An Electric Day, page 619, [magazine article]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000010 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Page of article by H. W. Hillman appearing in Good Housekeeping, illustrated with image of bathroom and small electric appliances (small water heater for shaving, vibrator, and radiator)
Electric apparatus and appliances
Bathrooms
Articles
Lees, Frederic, "An Electric Villa"
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1907
51
1
The Steward, "An Electric Villa"
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1907
51
1
Leonard, H. Ward, "A New System of Electric Propulsion," Electricity
Archival Resource Key
July 20, 1892
51
1
McGraw - Hill Co., Inc., The Home Electrical.
Archival Resource Key
51
1
Popular Mechanics, "Submarine Mines"
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1908
51
1
Scientific American, "Edison's Concrete Furniture"
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 13, 1912
51
1
Taylor, John Bellamy, "Microscopic Study of the Phonograph," Scientific American
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 13, 1915
51
1
The New York Edison Company, List of Electrical Appliances and Applications
Archival Resource Key
51
1
The Philadelphia Electric Company, National Home Electric
Archival Resource Key
Jul 6, 1926
51
1
Richards, Joseph W. "History of the Electric Furnace"
Archival Resource Key
51
1
Sterling Debenture Corporation, The American Telegraphone Company
Archival Resource Key
51
1
Victor Talking Machine Co., The New Orthophonic Victrolas Electrolas and Radiola Combinations
Archival Resource Key
51
1
Advertisements
Archival Resource Key
51
2
Early home appliances
Archival Resource Key
51
3
Articles on farm life
Archival Resource Key
1908-1910
51
4
Television and motion pictures
Archival Resource Key
51
5
Phonographs, telegraphones, graphophones
Archival Resource Key
51
6
Electric Railways
3.9
Archival Resource Key
1895-1898
United States Circuit Court, Western District of Michigan: Benson Bidwell, Clara E. Bidwell, Charles F. Bidwell vs. Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Archival Resource Key
52
Scope and Contents note
includes Hammer's Testimony
N.J. Supreme Court: Alexander F. Bliss Vs. Bergen County Traction Company brief for the defendant
Archival Resource Key
52
Full text of case of Thomson Houston Electric Company vs. Union Railway Company and Walker Company - filed in U.S. circuit Court
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 12, 1898
52
Copy of the deposition of court case, Hammer cross examined by Mr. Davis
Archival Resource Key
September 1, 1898
52
Re-cross-examination of Hammer continued by Davis
Archival Resource Key
52
New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals, Alexander F. Bliss vs. The Bergen County Traction Company
Archival Resource Key
52
U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division, Eastern District of Missouri: Adams Electric Railway Co., Vs Lindell Railway Co., brief for defendants
Archival Resource Key
52
Full text of injunctions granted by the Courts against the various companies sued for infringement
Archival Resource Key
52
Circuit Court of the United States, Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, Benson Bidwell, Clara E. Bidwell and Charles F. Bidwell (complainants) vs. Consolidated Street Railway Company (Defendant) on Bidwell Patent No. 318,594. Defendant's record on final hearing
Archival Resource Key
52
U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division of Eastern Missouri, Adams Electric Railway Co. vs. The Lindell Railway Co. Brief for Defendants
Archival Resource Key
52
U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri, Adams Electric Railway Co. vs. The Lindell Railway Co. Argument of Frederic H. Betts for Defendant on Final Hearing
Archival Resource Key
52
N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals Andrew F. Bliss vs. Bergen County Traction Co. Points for Defendant in Error
Archival Resource Key
52
N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals. Alexander F. Bliss vs. the Bergen County Transaction Co. Statement of Facts
Archival Resource Key
52
N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals. The Bergen Traction Co. vs. Andrew Bliss. Points and Brief for Plaintiff in Error
Archival Resource Key
52
New Jersey Supreme, Alexander F. Bliss vs. the Bergen County Traction Co. Statement of Facts
Archival Resource Key
52
N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals, Bergen County Traction Co. vs. Alexander Bliss. State of the Case
Archival Resource Key
52
N.J. Supreme Court, Alexander F. Bliss vs. Bergen County Traction Co. State of the Case
Archival Resource Key
52
Suspended Switch Case (Circuit Court), Full Text of Decision in the case of Thomson Houston Electric Co. vs. Elmira and Horsehead Railway Co.
Archival Resource Key
June 19, 1895
52
Suspended Switch Case. (Circuit Court of Appeals) Full Text of decision in the case of Thomson-Houston Electric Co. vs. Elmira and Horseheads Railway Co.
Archival Resource Key
June 19, 1895
52
Articles
Archival Resource Key
52
Various pamphlets on European electric railways
Archival Resource Key
53
1-2
La Trazione Elettrica Sulle Linee Vallellinesi, diagrams, pamphlets, and photographs
Archival Resource Key
53
3
Paper, "Electric railroads' investigated by Hammer in Europe
Archival Resource Key
53
3
Electric Signs
3.10
Archival Resource Key
1900-1921
Identified Articles
Archival Resource Key
1900-1921
Advertisements from Betts and Betts
Archival Resource Key
1911
54
1
Anderson, O.P. "Brief Outline f Electric Sign History and Development," Signs of the Times
Archival Resource Key
May. 1916
54
1
BOLOSSY Diralfy's Mammouth Historical Presentation, El Dorado on the Palisades 1891, brochure promoting Amusement Park
Archival Resource Key
54
1
Engineering Department, National Lamp Works, "Engineering Features of Electric Sign Lighting, with Bulletin"
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 15, 1916
54
1
Estimate for isolated electric light plant from the Thomas Houston Electric Co.
Archival Resource Key
54
1
Ford, Arthur H. "The Design of Illuminated Signs"
Archival Resource Key
1914
54
1
General Electric Company, "Edison Mazda Sign Lamps"
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1913
54
1
Good Lighting, "The New Era in Lighting Fixtures"
Archival Resource Key
May 1912
54
1
Illuminating Engineering Society, "Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society"
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 30, 1920
54
2
Mills, E.A., "The Development of Electric Sign Lighting," Illuminating Engineer Society
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 1920
54
2
Mills, E.A. "The Development of Electric Sign Lighting,"paper read before the Illuminating Engineering Society
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 30, 1920
54
2
Patent Specification of F. Alcock, Advertising service
Archival Resource Key
1900
54
2
Shute, J.M., "The Lighting of Signs and Billboards," Lighting Data
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1921
54
2
The New York Edison Co., Electric Sign
Archival Resource Key
54
2
The New York Edison Co., Profitable Advertising
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1902
54
2
The New York Edison Co., The Edison Monthly
Archival Resource Key
May 1921
54
2
The Electric Motor and Equipment Co., Decorative Devices and Signs of the Times
Archival Resource Key
May 1901
54
2
Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 1920
54
2
Williams, Arthur, "A report made at the twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the National Electric Light Association"
Archival Resource Key
May 1903
54
2
Advertising brochures and pamphlets of various companies
Archival Resource Key
54
3
Miscellaneous notes; articles and illustrations
Archival Resource Key
54
4
Various articles from Electrical Review, Western Electrician, and Electrical World
Archival Resource Key
54
5
News Clippings
Archival Resource Key
54
6
Scope and Contents note
From
N. Y Daily Tribune; N. Y. Times; N. Y. Herald, The Evening Mail
Biographical Materials Relating To The History Of Electricity
3.11
Archival Resource Key
1919
Portraits
Archival Resource Key
55
1
Biographical materials
Archival Resource Key
55
2
Lists of autographed photographs of "Eminent Electrical Men"
Archival Resource Key
55
3
Material regarding Nobel Prize
Archival Resource Key
55
4
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1919
55
5
Miscellaneous: news clippings, diagrams, Band of T.A. Edison's straw hat
Archival Resource Key
55
6
Poulsen: Telegramaphone
3.12
Archival Resource Key
1878-1989
Identified Articles
Archival Resource Key
1900-1988
Electrical Review, "The Poulsen Telegraphone in America"
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Fyfe, Herbert C., "The Telegramaphone and the British Post Office," Scientific American
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 25, 1903
56
1
L'Electricien, "Revue Internationale de L'Electricite"
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 16, 1900
56
1
Lieb, John A., "The Telegraphone: A Magnetic Phonograph," Electrical Review
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 1902
56
1
Lieb, Chas. A., The Poulsen Telegraphone, Brochure on Poulsen apparatus, steel bands and steel wires
Archival Resource Key
56
1
O'Reilly, H.P. Invitations to attend a demonstration of the Poulsen telegraphone
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Poulsen's patent specifications for method of recording and reproducing sound or signals
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 13, 1900
56
1
Prometheus, Berlin, Germany
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 29, 1900
56
1
Revue Des Sciences, "La Nature Gaston Tissandier"
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 23, 1900
56
1
The American Telegraphone Co., "The Poulsen Telegraphone"
Archival Resource Key
56
1
The Literary Digest Advertiser, 'Poulsen's Telegraphone: A Scientific Marvel"
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 9, 1907
56
1
The Press of Philadelphia, "Poulsen, The Danish Edison"
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 9, 1907
56
1
The World, "Love Letters in Steel: The Wonderful New Telegraphone which Registers Speech on Indestructible Discs of Metal prepared for Mailing"
Archival Resource Key
Sunday May 31,1903
56
1
The Shorthand Writer, "The Telegraphone"
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 4, 1906
56
1
Waterman's, "Report on the Poulsen Telegraphonel [?]
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Telegraphones and telegramaphones
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Advertisements (stocks)
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Engel, Friedrich Karl, "1888-1988: A Hundred Years of Magnetic Sound Recording," J. Audio Eng. Society. Vol. 36, No. 3: 170-178
Archival Resource Key
March 1988
56
1
Faraday Centennial Number
Archival Resource Key
56
1
Gandy, James W., "Bridgeton, the Birthplace of Magnetic Recording." South Jersey Magazine. Summer: 8 & 9 & 12
Archival Resource Key
1989
56
1
Oberlin Smith notes on talking phonographs (copies)
Archival Resource Key
Sept. 23, 1878
56
1
Phosphorescence
3.13
Archival Resource Key
1896-1929
Identified Articles
Archival Resource Key
1896-1929
57
1
Andrade, E.N., "Lenard's Researches on Phosphorescence," Scientific American Supplement
Archival Resource Key
Sep. 20, 1913
57
1
Andrews, W.S., "The Production of Fluorescence and Phosphorescence by Radiations from the Carbon Arc Lamp," General Electric Review
Archival Resource Key
Sept.1925
57
1
Baly, C.C., Photosynthesis
Archival Resource Key
1929
57
1
Baskerville, Charles, "Ultra-violet Light in the Laboratory and in Practice"
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Butman, Chester A., "The Electron Theory of Phosphorescence," Physical Review
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1913
57
1
Catalog of Scientific Papers compiled by the Royal Society of London
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Compton, Arthur, "What is Light?" The Scientific Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1929
57
1
DuBois, Raphael, Physiological Light
Archival Resource Key
1896
57
1
Hogben, Lancelot, "Animal Light and Animal Colour," Discovery
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1924
57
1
Hammer, "Phosphorescent Mixtures"
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Harwood, W.S., "Studies in Marine Biology"
Archival Resource Key
57
1
McDowell, Louise Sherwood, "The Fluorescence and Absorption of Anthracene," Physical Review
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1908
57
1
Nichols, Edward L., "Fluorescence and Phosphorescence," Franklin Institute
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 29, 1906
57
1
Phosporescent Calcium Tungstate formulas of W.S. Andrew and Thomas Edison
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Pierce, C.A., "Studies in Thermo-luminescence," Physical Review
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1911
57
1
Rayleigh, Lord, "The Glow of Phosphorus," Scientific Monthly
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Waggoner, Chan. W., "Some Studies in Short Duration Phosphorescence," Short Duration Phosphorence
Archival Resource Key
57
1
Studies in Luminescence from Physical Review Magazine
Archival Resource Key
57
2
Nichols, Edward L., "Studies of Luminescence," Physical Review
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1905
57
2
Phosphorescence Unpublished Materials (Correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
57
3
Chemiluminescence
Archival Resource Key
57
4
Simonini, Angelo, "Notes on Chemical Luminescence of Rare Earths," Illustrated Engineers
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1909
57
4
Waggoner, C.W., "Some Phosphorescent Salts of Cadmium with Sodium," Physical Review
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1910
57
4
The Production of Light by Animals
Archival Resource Key
57
5
Coblentz, W.W., "The Colour of the Light emitted by Lampyride," The Canadian Entomologist
Archival Resource Key
57
5
Dahlgren, Uric, "The Production of Light by Animals," Franklin Institute Journal
Archival Resource Key
May 1917
57
5
McDermott, F. Alex, Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Production of Light in Living Organisms
Archival Resource Key
1911
57
5
McDermott, F. Alex, The Stability of the Photogenic Material of the Lampyridae and its Probable Chemical Nature
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1911
57
5
McDermott, F. Alex, Why Do Certain Living Forms Produce Light?
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1911
57
5
Phosphorescent Lights
Archival Resource Key
57
6
Cold Light
Archival Resource Key
57
7
Bancroft, Wilder D., "The Theory of Cold Light," Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 10, 1915
57
7
DuBois, Raphael, "The Mystery of Cold Light," Scientific American Monthly
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1920
57
7
Harvey, E. Newton, Cold Light
Archival Resource Key
1926
57
7
The Light of the Firefly
Archival Resource Key
57
7
Radium
3.14
Archival Resource Key
1896-1930
Le Radium
Archival Resource Key
34 Copies
1904-1907
Le Radium
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1904-Dec. 1904
58
1
Le Radium
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1905-Dec. 1905
58
2
Le Radium
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1906-Nov. 1906
58
3
Le Radium
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1907-March 1907
58
4
News clippings:
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings from
The New York Press, The Electrical World, Modern Medical Science, The New York Herald, The New-York American, The New York The World, North American, New York Tribune, Times, Boston Post, The Illustrated London News, Harpers Weekly, New York Sun
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903
59
1
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
59
2-3
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (News Special)
Archival Resource Key
Sunday August 30, 1903
59
4
News clippings:
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings from
Electrical Review, Tribune Weekly Review, New York America, New York Times, New York Press, New York Evening Journal, Illustrated London News, Electrical Review, New- York Evening Sun, Times, New York Press
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903
60
1
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
60
2
News clippings
Burning Out / Birthmarks, Blemishes of the / Skin and Even Turning a Negro / White with the Magic Rays of Radium, the New Mystery of Science! [newpaper article]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Ink on paper.
13.5" x 10.7".
January 10, 1904
English.
60
2
Burning Out / Birthmarks, Blemishes of the / Skin and Even Turning a Negro / White with the Magic Rays of Radium, the New Mystery of Science! [newpaper article].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000002 (AC scan number)
Scope and Contents
Article includes two images.
Blemishes
Birthmarks
Race
Radium
Radioactive substances
X-rays
Newspaper clippings
New York American
Can the Ethiopian / Change his Skin or / the Leopard his Spots? [newpaper article]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Ink on paper.
14.0" x 10.5"
January 25, 1904
English.
60
2
Can the Ethiopian / Change his Skin or / the Leopard his Spots? [newpaper article].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000003 (AC scan number)
Scope and Contents
Article includes a variety of images.
Condition
Tattered.
Boston globe
Race
Radium
Radioactive substances
X-rays
Newspaper clippings
Ethiopians
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
61
1-3
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
62
1-2
The Western miner and Financier, (Radium Edition), vol.10, no. 11
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 17, 1904
63
1
Moffett, Cleveland, "The Sense and the Nonsense about Radium." Success, vol. 7
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1904
63
1
V.V.V., "A Few Days Ago: A Radium Chronicle," The Sphere
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 5, 1910
63
1
News clippings
Archival Resource Key
1904
63
2
Loose clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-1906
63
3
Undated clippings
Archival Resource Key
undated
63
3
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1912, 1920, 1921, 1923
63
3
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1902
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1903
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1903
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
1903-12
63
4
News and periodical clippings
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1904
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1904
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1904
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 1904
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1904
63
4
News and periodical clippings
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1904
63
4
Pamphlets:
Archival Resource Key
"The Curative Action of Radium" by Dr. Sigm. Saubermann
Archival Resource Key
1914
63
5
"Radio - Activity of Uranium" by Sir William Crookes, London
Archival Resource Key
1900
63
5
"Radium, Radioactive Substances and Aluminum with Experimental Research of the Same" by Myron Metzenbaum
Archival Resource Key
1904
63
5
"Illustrating the Penetrating Power of Radium" by Robert Abbe
Archival Resource Key
63
5
"Le Radium, La Radioactivite et les sciences qui s'y rattachent"
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1904
63
5
"Le Radium, La Radioactivite et les Radiations"
Archival Resource Key
May 1905
63
5
English Language, Bound Pamphlets
Archival Resource Key
1899-1924
1899 - 1902:
Archival Resource Key
Owens, E.E., "Thorium Radiation," from the Philosophical Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1899
64
1
Crookes, Sir William, Radio-Activity of Uranium, London
Archival Resource Key
1900
64
1
Bolton, Henry Carrington, "An Experimental Study of Radio Active Substances," from the Smithsonian Report for 1899, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1901
64
1
Kroptkin, Prince, "Unsuspected Radiations," from the Smithsonian Report for 1900, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1901
64
1
Rutherford F., and H.T. Brookii, "The New Gas from Radium,"from The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 2nd series 1901-1902, vol. 7, section 3, 1901
Archival Resource Key
1901-1902
64
1
Hammer, Edison's Tungstate of Calcium Lamp. The Nernst Lamp. Radium, Polonium and Actinium, New York and Chicago
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 3, 1902
64
1
Crookes, Sir Williams, "Radio - Activity and the Electron Theory," from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 69
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1902
64
1
Crookes, Sir William and Prof. H. Becquerel, "Sur La Radio-Activite-de la Matiere," Royal Institute of Great Britain
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 2, 1902
64
1
Rutherford E., and H.T. Brooks, "Comparison of the Radioactive Substances," the Philosophical Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Jul. 1902
64
1
Rutherford E., and F. Soddy, "The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity," Part II, from the Philosophical Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Nov. 1902
64
1
1903:
Archival Resource Key
Rutherford E., "Excited Radioactivity and the Method of Its Transmission," the Philosophical Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Jan. 1903
64
2
Rutherford E., "The Magnetic and Electric Deviation of the Easily Absorbed Rays from Radium," Philosophical
Magazine
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1903
64
2
Hammer, Radium and other Radioactive Substances with a Consideration of Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Substances. The Properties and Applications- of Selenium and the Treatment of Disease by the Ultra Violet Light, New York
Archival Resource Key
April 17,1903
64
2
Barker, George F., "Radio-Activity and Chemistry", the School of Mines Quarterly, vol.24, no. 3 (three copies)
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1903
64
2
Scott, Charles F. et. al., Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol.20, no. 5
Archival Resource Key
May 1903
64
2
Crookes, Sir William, Modern Views on Matter: The Realization of a Dream, London
Archival Resource Key
Jun. 5, 1903
64
2
Crookes, Sir William , "The Ultra-Violet Spectrum of Radium," from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 72
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 1903
64
2
Becquerel, Henri, "On the Radio-Activity of Matter," from The Smithsonian Report for 1902, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1903
64
2
McLennan, J.C., and E.F. Burton, On the Radio-activity of Metals, University of Toronto Studies, Physical Sciences, no. 3
Archival Resource Key
1903
64
2
Hammer & Hess, IL Radio: Le Sue Proprieta ed Applicazioni
Archival Resource Key
1903
64
2
1904-1905:
Archival Resource Key
Cleaves, Margaret A. 'The Physiological Action of Light and the Physical Factors in Phototherapy," Reprinted from The Journal of Advanced Therapentics
Archival Resource Key
Feb. 1904
64
3
Abbe, Robert, Radium and Radioactivity
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1904
64
3
Phillips, Alexander, Radium in American ore
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1904
64
3
Metzenbaum, Myron, "Radium, -Radioactive Substances and Aluminium", reprint from The Cleveland Medical Journal
Archival Resource Key
May 1904
64
3
Abbe, Robert, "The Subtle Power of Radium," Reprint from The Medical Record, New York
Archival Resource Key
Aug. 27, 1904
64
3
Bottone, S., Radium, and All About It, London
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
Crookes, Sir William, "Modern Views on Matter: the Realization of a Dream." From the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
Hall-Edwards, J., (ed.), Archives of the Roentgen Ray: and Allied Phenomena, vol. 8, no. 10
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1904
64
3
Ramsay, Sir William, and Frederick Soddy, "Experiments in Radio - Activity and the Production of Helium From Radium," from the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
McLennan, J.F., on the Radioactivity of Mineral oils and Natural Gases
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
Renterdahl, David, The Radioactive Atom, Providence
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
Thomson, J.J., "Radium," from the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1904
64
3
Dawes, H. F., "On the Secondary Radiation Excited in Different Metals by the Y Rays from Radium," reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no. 3
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1905
64
3
Johnson, L. , "On the Decay of Excited Radioactivity from Natural Gases," reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20. no. 3
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1905
64
3
McLennan,J.C. "Notes on the Use of Sensitive Quadrant Electronmeters," Reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no. 3
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1905
64
3
University of Toronto, "Papers from the Physical Laboratory" by J.C. McLennan, L.B. Johnson, and H.P.Hawes, reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no.3 (Papers are not enclosed)
Archival Resource Key
Mar. 1903
64
3
1906-1909:
Archival Resource Key
Dutton, Major C.E., Volcanos and Radioactivity
Archival Resource Key
April 17, 1906
64
4
Abbe, Robert, 'Explosion of a Radium Tube," reprinted from Medical Record
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 21, 1906
64
4
Sands, Benj W., The Primordial Energy
Archival Resource Key
1906
64
4
Curie, Madame, "Modern Theories of Electricity and Matter," from the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1745, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1907
64
4
Himstedt, Franz, "Radioactivity," from the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1746, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1907
64
4
Joly, John, "Uranium and Geologv," from the Smithsonian Report for 1908, no. 1900, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1909
64
4
Broca, Andre, "The Work of Henri Becquerel," From the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1746, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1907
64
4
Broca, Andrel, "The Work of Henri Becquerel," from The Smithsonian Report from 1908, no. 1914, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1909
64
4
Wilkinson, John Anderson, "Th Phosphorescence of Some Inorganic Salt,' reprinted from the Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 13, no. 9
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1909
64
4
McLennan, J.C. "On the Electricity Charges Acquired by Insulated Potassium Salt and Radioactive Substances in High Bacua," reprinted from The Physical Review, vol. 29, no. 6
Archival Resource Key
Dec. 1909
64
4
1910 -1924:
Archival Resource Key
Kennedy, W.T., "On the Active Deposit from Actinium in Uniform Electric Fields," from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3rd Series, Ottawa
Archival Resource Key
1910
64
5
Ives, Herbert E., and William W. Coblentz, "Luminous Efficiency of The Firefly," from Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 6, no. 3, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1910
64
5
Andrews, W.S., "Notes on Tribo-Luminescence," from the Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society, Vol. 18
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1910
64
5
Becquerel, Jean, "Modern Ideas on the Constitution of Matter," from The Smithsonian Report for 1910,Washington
Archival Resource Key
1917
64
5
The Society of Arts of the M.I.T., Science Conspectus, Boston, Mass.
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1911
64
5
Coblentz, William W., The Physical Study of the Firefly, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1912
64
5
Curran, Thomas F.V., Carnotte: The Principal Source of Radium, New York
Archival Resource Key
1913
64
5
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, "The Constitution of Matter and the Evolution of the Elements" from The Smithsonian Report for 1915, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1916
64
5
Buseck, O., "Radium and Its Physical Properties," reprinted from The Hahnemannian Monthly
Archival Resource Key
May 1916
64
5
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements, Franklin Institute, Pa.
Archival Resource Key
1924
64
5
ATSCO, Inc., The Radium Gold Fibre Screen, New York City
Archival Resource Key
undated
64
5
Papers, Lectures, Clippings
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents note
The material in this box is arranged alphabetically by last names of authors. There is a brief listing of some of the writings in the box
Materials by authors A - C (See Itemized Listing):
Archival Resource Key
Ackroyd, William, Experiments and Cbservations with Radium
Archival Resource Key
1903
65
1
Ackroyd, William, Radium and Its Position in Nature, Halifax
Archival Resource Key
65
1
Allan, S.J., 'Radioactivity From Freshly Fallen Snow
Archival Resource Key
Dec.31, 1902
65
1
Alphers, O.T.J., Radium and Its Position in Nature, New Zealand
Archival Resource Key
65
1
Barry, Paul, "Radium and Its Wonderful Qualities," Electrical Age
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1902
65
1
Bohn, J. Lloyd, "Radioactive Properties of Rocks, Soils, Crude Oil and Waters from Southern California," Franklin Institute Journal
Archival Resource Key
Oct. 1930
65
1
Brown, F.C., "Evidence Favoring the Radioactive Disintegration of Sodium as an Element," Iowa Academy of Science
Archival Resource Key
65
1
Cahen, Edwaril, "Modern Extraction in Cornwall"
Archival Resource Key
65
1
Crawford, Emily "The Curies at Rome: An Interview with the Discoverers of Radium," The World Today
Archival Resource Key
Apr. 1904
65
1
Crookers, William, "on Repulsion Resulting from Radiation" Sci. Am. Sup.
Archival Resource Key
May 27, 1896
65
1
Crozer, Laura, "Madame Curie the Woman," Popular Electricity
Archival Resource Key
May. 1911
65
1
D
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65
2
E-F
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65
3
G-H
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65
4
K-N
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65
5
P-R
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65
6
S-T
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65
7
W
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65
8
Typed and hand-written scripts
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65
9
Miscellaneous
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65
10
Becquerel, M. Henri "Recherches sur me Propriete Nouvelle De La Matiere"
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65
11
Foreign Language Pamphlets:
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66
Pamphlets:
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Berget, A., Le Radium et Les Nouvelles Radiations, Paris
Archival Resource Key
1904
66
1
Besson, Paul, Le Radium et La Radio-Activite, Paris
Archival Resource Key
1904
66
1
Curie, Mme. Sklodowska, Recherches Sur les Substances Radioactives, (Thesis presented to the Faculte des Sciences de Paris, in partial fulfilment for the degree of Docteur es Sciences Physiques), Paris
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
1904
66
2
_________. Radio-Active Substances, Thesis presented to the Faculte des Sciences de Paris (Reprinted from the Chemical News), London
Archival Resource Key
1904
66
2
Curie, P. *Recherches Recentes Sur La Radioactivite," Journal de Chimie-Physique, Vol. 1
Archival Resource Key
1903
66
3
Electric World, "Death Of Prof. Pierre Curie"
Archival Resource Key
April 28,1906
66
3
Pamphlets in German:
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Danne, Jacques, Das Radium, Leipzig
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1904
66
4
Heydweiller, Adolf, Ueber Gewichtsanderunger bei Chemischer un Physikalischer Umsetzung, Leipzig
Archival Resource Key
1901
66
4
Sonderabdruck, Berichte der Dentschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Berlin
Archival Resource Key
1903
66
4
Hammer & Hess, Il Radio: Le Sue Proprieta ed Applicazioni, Torino
Archival Resource Key
2 Copies
1903
66
5
Curie Radium Pamphlets:
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Curie, E., Radium et les Nouvelles Radiation, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1904
66
6
Berget, A. Le Radium (Portraits de M. & [?]ttne. Curie & M.Becquerel), Paris
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66
6
Curie, Mr. & Mrs., New Radio- active substances and the Rays which they Emit, N.Y.
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1904
66
6
Madame Pierre Curie and Professor Curie, author?, date?
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66
6
Societe Centrale de Produits Chemiques, Substances Radio
actives & Sels de Radium, Saint-Louis
Archival Resource Key
1904
66
6
Becquerel, Henri, Bibliographie, Paris
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1903
66
6
Radium in Medicine
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Pamphlets, Journals, Addresses, Papers
Archival Resource Key
66
7
Selenium
3.15
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1910-1912
Identified articles #1 - 8
Archival Resource Key
67
1
Identified articles #9 - 13
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67
2
Identified articles #14 - 19, 20 - 25
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67
3
Identified articles #26 - 28, 30 - 36, 38 & 39, 41-45
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67
4
George Jackson Book 1 Fritt Cells
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67
5
General selenium pamphlets and papers
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67
6
The uses of selenium in radio and television
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67
7
T.M. Giltay's notes on improved apparatus for demonstration of selenium
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67
8
Miscellaneous articles
Archival Resource Key
67
9
Elektrophysikalische Rundschau
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March 1910-December 1910
68
1
Elektrophysikalische Rundschau
Archival Resource Key
February 1911-December 1911
68
2
Elektrophysikalische Rundschau
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October 1912-June 1912
68
3
Selenium cells
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68
4
Unidentified German materials on selenium
Archival Resource Key
68
5
Unidentified German materials on selenium
Archival Resource Key
68
6
Selenium photographs
Archival Resource Key
68
7
Patent Materials
3.16
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1870-1890
U.S. materials
Archival Resource Key
undated
Various phonograph patent specifications
Archival Resource Key
69
1-4
Miscellaneous patent specification
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69
5-6
Miscellaneous Patent Specifications
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70
1-2
English and French Patents
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1870s-1880s
Adamian - Blamires
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71
1
Brewer, Edward Griffith
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71
2
Carbonelle - Hulsmeyer
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71
3
Jensen, Peter
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71
4
Johnson - Korn
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71
5
Lake, William Robert
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71
6
Langhans - Swan
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71
7
Thompson, William Phillips
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71
8
French: Berjonneau - Duchenne
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71
9
T. R. Harding & Son, Tower Works, Leeds Counter, Speed Indicator, Speedometer
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71
10
Heany materials
Archival Resource Key
undated
Specifications forming parts of patents, complete specifications
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72
1
Patent litigation
Archival Resource Key
72
2
Specifications and Drawings of Dynamos in German and French
3.17
Archival Resource Key
undated
92
Miscellaneous Reference Materials
3.18
Archival Resource Key
1879-1915
Miscellaneous notes (alphabetical)
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73
1
Bibliography
Archival Resource Key
73
2
General Electric Co. Bulletin
Archival Resource Key
1899-1902
73
3
History of the War of wars - notes, draft diary, etc. by P. Henry Mottclay
Archival Resource Key
1914
73
4
Die erste Bergschwebebahn der Welt
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1902
73
5
Miscellaneous materials
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73
6
Report from the Select Committee on Lighting by Electricity, London
Archival Resource Key
June 13, 1879
93
Report from the Select Committee on Lighting by Electricity, London
Archival Resource Key
1882
93
Electrical Supplies (handbook edition), compiled and published by the Howland Publishing Co., N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
1915
93
A large folder containing news clippings
Archival Resource Key
93
Miscellaneous reference materials
Archival Resource Key
93
Address book
Archival Resource Key
93
Human Radium news clipping, SI color oversize neg. #77-4234
Archival Resource Key
93
William J. Hammer Scientific Collection Illustrated, guide to the collection prepared by Mabel Hammer Assheton
Archival Resource Key
undated
74
5
Celebration All Over the United States in Honor of Ocean Telegraphing
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1 Poster
22" x 28"
1858-09
1
Exhibition of Edison Lamp of Harrison, New Jersey at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and middle Atlantic States, Cincinnati, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1888-10-26
2
Newspaper clipping, Edison at International Electrical Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Daily Graphic
Archival Resource Key
1884
2
Newspaper clipping, Glimpses of the Edison Electrical and Photographic Exhibit, Paris Centennial Exposition of 1889
Archival Resource Key
1889
2
Order 158, curve of 18 regular bamboos on deposit clamps on platina wires, notebook 192
Archival Resource Key
1881-02
2
Order 39, curve of 9 regular bamboos, bamboo called hanchitee sample marked 'R", notebook 219
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1881-02-26
2
Edison Electric Light Company, information for agents
Archival Resource Key
1885-1886
2
Chart showing the variations of Cu wire
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1882
2
Sketch of Mr. Rudd's neon and mercury vapor lamp
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1933-11-29
109
12
Miscellaneous diagrams
Archival Resource Key
1840, 1898
109
14
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches by Hammer and a jenks diagram No. 1 of Neefe's liquiud rheostat of 1840.
Photographs
Series 4
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1880-1925
Scope and Contents note
The photographs in this series consist of twenty-three boxes of photographs arranged into three groups: Subseries 4.1: Photographs relating to Hammer; Subseries 4.2: Edisonia photographs; and Subseries 4.3: Photographs relating to reference materials. Nine of the twenty-three boxes in Series 4 are oversized.
William J. Hammer Papers
4.1
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1880-1883
Hammer
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94
1
Hammer biographical
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94
2
Hammer scientific collection (all aspects)
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94
3
Hammer scientific collection (all aspects)
[William Hammer sitting in his lab, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver albumen? on paper.
10.1" x 13.3"
Circa 1900
English.
94
3
[William Hammer sitting in his lab, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000007 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Lab contains a wide variety of items -- books, light bulbs, x-rays, photographs, recording machines, etc.
Laboratories
Light bulbs
X-rays
Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Hammer's historical collection of incandescent lamps
Archival Resource Key
88
4
Hammer's office
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94
5
Berlin
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1883
96
1
Blueprints
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96
2
First marine installation
Archival Resource Key
1880
96
3
Holburn viaduct
Archival Resource Key
1882
96
4
Johnston, Pa.
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96
5
Lectures
Archival Resource Key
96
6
Edisonia
4.2
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1880-1907
Menlo Park, New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
97
1-3
Scope and Contents note
includes Edison's Laboratory and the first electric lamp factory and machine shop
Edison Pioneers (group)
Archival Resource Key
97
4
Edison Pioneers (group)
[Edison and other men on the stairs and porch, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper.
9.6" x 13.0"
Circa 1880
English.
97
2
[Edison and other men on the stairs and porch, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000021 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Edison is in the center.
Laboratories
Photographs -- 1890-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
AIEE
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97
?
AIEE
[American Institution of Electrical Engineers Annual Dinner, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper
10.4" x 13.5"
February 11, 1904
English.
97
?
[American Institution of Electrical Engineers Annual Dinner, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000015 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
View of dinners from above. Hall decorated with swags of electric lights.
Electrical engineering
Dinners and dining
Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Edison
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97A
1
Edison
[Edison with voice recording machine and large globe, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
10.4" x 13.5"
1907
English.
[Edison with voice recording machine and large globe, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000016 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Arrangement
Series 4, box 97a. folder ?.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Pach Bros. in New York.
Sound -- Recording and reproducing
Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Sims Edison electric torpedo
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97A
2
Menlo Park, New Jersey -- includes Edison's Laboratory and the first electric lamp factory
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97A
3-4
Menlo Park, New Jersey -- includes Edison's Laboratory and the first electric lamp factory
[Edison's first lamp factory, Menlow Park, New Jersey, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
7.4" x 9.2"
1880 or 1881
English.
[Edison's first lamp factory, Menlow Park, New Jersey, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000018 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Arrangement
Series 4, box 97a. folder 3.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Mr. Holzen and his glass blowers posed outside of of the building.
Light bulbs
Glass blowing and working
Photographs -- 1890-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
[Interior of Edison's laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey : black & white photoprint.]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
9.8" x 13.0".
1880
English.
[Interior of Edison's laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey : black & white photoprint.]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000019 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper, mounted on cardboard.
Arrangement
Series 4, box 97a. folder 3.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photograph must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Men in the photograph are identified in ink on the mountboard.
Condition
Mountboard brittle, broken.
Laboratories
New Jersey
Menlo Park (N.J.)
Photographs -- 1890-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Buildings at West Orange, New Jersey and Milan, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
97A
5
Photographs of the Edison M. 30cp "Ghost"
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97A
6
Photographs of the Edison M. 30cp "Ghost"
Edison M. 300 c.p. "ghost" light bulb, [black & white photoprint]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
7.0" x 5.0"
1893
English.
Edison M. 300 c.p. "ghost" light bulb, [black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000020 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Arrangement
Series 4, box 97a. folder 6.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
"Proof of my [William Hammer] discovery in Feb 1881 of "Phantom Shadow" written on the photo.
Light bulbs
Photographs -- 1890-1910 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Newark, N.J., laboratory
Archival Resource Key
97A
7
Edison Pioneers
Archival Resource Key
97A
8
Edison magnetic ore separator
Archival Resource Key
97A
9
Reference Materials
4.3
Archival Resource Key
1880-1925
Portraits of Scientific Men
Archival Resource Key
undated
102
1-2
Distribution of Power by Sprague Motors in Boston
Archival Resource Key
1887
102
3
Ernest Ruhmer's Sun Eclipse Records
Archival Resource Key
1905
102
4
Hoburn Viaduct, London
Archival Resource Key
1882
102
5
St. Louis Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1904
102
6
Motors (generators dynamos)
Archival Resource Key
102A
3
Goddess of Electricity
Archival Resource Key
102A
5
Portraits of scientific men
Archival Resource Key
undated
102A
1
Cleveland Car Show, 3rd Brush Generator Starting, Motor & Battery Ignition
Archival Resource Key
1921
102A
2
William Wallace Laboratory and machinery
Archival Resource Key
102A
4
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
102A
6
Electricity lamp distribution system
Archival Resource Key
74
1
Phonograph
Archival Resource Key
74
2
Poulsen's telegramaphone
Archival Resource Key
74
3
Radium: 'A Scientific Hand"; radioactive substances
Archival Resource Key
74
4
Electric Railways
Archival Resource Key
circa 1900
103
1
La Traxione Elettrica Sulle Linee vallellinese
Archival Resource Key
103
2
Selenium
Archival Resource Key
103
3
Self-propelled "orientator"
Archival Resource Key
103
4
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1882-1919
103
5
Electric Signs
Archival Resource Key
103
[World's Fair photographs]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
2 Boxes
Approx. 150 photographs
[1881-1904]
English.
98
99
Local Numbers
85-8784 (OIPP Neg.)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver albumen on paper.
General
Photographs in boxes 98-99, Series 4, Photographs.
Scope and Contents
Approx. 150 photographs of five World's Fairs: the Exposition Universelle (Paris 1889); the Berlin Exposition (1883, with an 1881 photograph); the London Crystal Palace Exposition (1882); the 1884 Philadelphia fair; the St. Louis fair, 1904; etc. Edison's inventions are numerous, but other scenes, such as the Eiffel Tower, are also included.
Condition
Most prints are in delicate condition, often on very brittle mount board. Some albumen prints are faded.
Exhibitions
Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)
Paris (France)
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- 1900-1910
Berlin (Germany)
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Photographs -- Archives Center
World's fairs
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Paris Exposition (photo album)
Archival Resource Key
1889
98
Paris Exposition (photo album)
Expositions, world:
Archival Resource Key
Berlin Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1883
99
1
Philadelphia Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1884
99
2
Philadelphia Exposition
The first flashing column of light [black & white photoprint]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper.
12.3" x 10.0"
1884
English.
99
2
The first flashing column of light [black & white photoprint].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000004 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Column designed and built by William J. Hammer for the Franklin Institute International Electric Exposition at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1884.
Light bulbs
Incandescent lamps
Exhibitions
Electric lighting
Photographs -- 1880-1890 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Franklin Institute International Electric Exposition (1884) (Philadelphia, Pa.,)
Ohio Valley and Central states Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1888
99
3
Paris Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1889
99
4
Crystal Palace, London
Archival Resource Key
1892
99
5
St. Louis Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1904
99
6
St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
Archival Resource Key
1888
99
6
J. Allen Heany Workshop, York, Pennsylvania
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75
J. Allen Heany Workshop, York, Pennsylvania
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76
J. Allen Heany Workshop, York, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
77
Lamp bulbs, bulbs, sockets
Archival Resource Key
78
79
80
100
101
Lamp bulbs, bulbs, sockets
Scope and Contents note
[includes one problem photo with mold (101)]
[Four early light bulbs : black & white photoprint.]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper
4.0" x 7.1"
1904
English.
79
1
[Four early light bulbs : black & white photoprint.]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000001 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Light bulbs
Incandescent lamps
Electric lighting
Photographs -- 1900-1910
[Five early light bulbs displayed, black & white photoprint]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper
7.7" x 13.1"
Circa 1920
English.
80
[Five early light bulbs displayed, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000011 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
The display lists makers name, date, and other details. Dates range from 1881 to 1883; makers Nothomb, Gatehouse, Rogers, and Latimer.
Light bulbs
Incandescent lamps
Electric lighting
Photographs -- 1910-1920
[Row of 5 light bulbs by Nothomb, Gatehouse, Rogers, and Latimer : photoprint]
Archival Resource Key
Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin or albumen? on paper, mounted.
[ca. 1880s.]
English.
80
Local Numbers
02006903.tif (AC Scan No.}
Scope and Contents
Bulbs have labels with dates from 1881 to "1882-3."
Lamps
Light bulbs
Exhibitions
Photographs -- 1880-1890 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Hammer apparatus
Archival Resource Key
Photograph album at the dedication exercises, Menlo Park, N.J.
Archival Resource Key
May 16, 1925
81
Photos of laboratory
Archival Resource Key
81
Photos of light bulb
Archival Resource Key
81
Photos of Menlo Park abandoned
Archival Resource Key
81
The History of an Art, Historical Collections of Incandescent Electric Lamps, William H. Hammer, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
19 3/4' x 26 5/8"
[1910?]
3
Photos of objects - Franklin Experimental Club
Archival Resource Key
81
Hammer Collection of portraits:
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1-A collection of 57 photographs of prominent telegraph men
Archival Resource Key
82
2-A photograph album of prominent electrical men
Archival Resource Key
82
Portraits of "Eminent Men of Electrical Science"
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Scope and Contents note
Arranged alphabetically.
Portraits of Eminent Men of Electric Science, biographical index cards
Archival Resource Key
undated
109
4
A-D
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83
Alexander, Patrick
Archival Resource Key
83
Ampere
Archival Resource Key
83
Anthony, William
Archival Resource Key
83
Arnold, Bion, J.
Archival Resource Key
83
Ayer, J.A.
Archival Resource Key
83
Ayerton and Perry - includes pictures of Mrs. Ayerton, W.E.
Archival Resource Key
83
Ayerton, John Perry
Archival Resource Key
83
Ayerton, W.E.
Archival Resource Key
83
Ayres, Brown
Archival Resource Key
83
Badt, Frances
Archival Resource Key
83
Banett
Archival Resource Key
83
Banti, Angelo
Archival Resource Key
83
Barker, George
Archival Resource Key
83
Barstrous, William S.
Archival Resource Key
83
Bassia, Alydallo
Archival Resource Key
83
Batchelor, Charles
Archival Resource Key
83
Baulis, R.N.
Archival Resource Key
83
Beck, James, M.
Archival Resource Key
83
Beddoe, D.J.
Archival Resource Key
83
Bedell, Frederick
Archival Resource Key
83
Bell, Alexander G.
Archival Resource Key
83
Bell, Louis
Archival Resource Key
83
Benjamin, Park
Archival Resource Key
83
Benton, W.B.
Archival Resource Key
83
Berliner, Emile
Archival Resource Key
83
Bequerel, Edmund
Archival Resource Key
83
Bequerel, Henry
Archival Resource Key
83
Berzelvs
Archival Resource Key
83
Bissal, E.
Archival Resource Key
83
Blogger
Archival Resource Key
83
Blondel , Andre
Archival Resource Key
83
Bohm, L.K.
Archival Resource Key
83
Bonney, T.G. (Dr.)
Archival Resource Key
83
Bristol Brace, DeWitt
Archival Resource Key
83
Brooks, David
Archival Resource Key
83
Brophy, William
Archival Resource Key
83
Brown, Harold P.
Archival Resource Key
83
Brown, L.E.L.
Archival Resource Key
83
Brown, Stanford
Archival Resource Key
83
Brown, Walter E.
Archival Resource Key
83
Brush, Walter E.
Archival Resource Key
83
Burridge, Lee S.
Archival Resource Key
83
Carhart, H.S.
Archival Resource Key
83
Carnegie, Andrew
Archival Resource Key
83
Chandler, C.F.
Archival Resource Key
83
Chaterlain, M.
Archival Resource Key
83
Chevreul, Michael Eugene
Archival Resource Key
83
Clark, Edwin
Archival Resource Key
83
Clark, Latimer
Archival Resource Key
83
Cody, William F. Honorable
Archival Resource Key
83
Colby, Edward
Archival Resource Key
83
Cooks, Pavson
Archival Resource Key
83
Cox, H.B.
Archival Resource Key
83
Crehore, Albert
Archival Resource Key
83
Crocker, Francais B.
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83
Crompton, Alfred G.
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83
Crop, Charles R.
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83
Crosby, 0.
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83
Curie, Madame, and Monsieur
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83
Cuttriss, Chas.
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83
Daft, Leo
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83
Dahl, Olaf
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83
Davenport, Thomas
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83
Davis, Daniel
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83
Delany, Patrick R.
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83
Deprez, Marcel
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83
DeSimone, D.R.
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83
Dewar, James
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83
Diehl, Philip
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83
DeFerranti, S.Z. (Dr.)
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83
Duddell, William
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83
Duncan, Louis
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83
E-G
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Eantz, Justus B.
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84
E-G
Eckener, Dr. Hugo
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Edison, Thomas - See Box 15
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84
Eickemeyer, R.
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84
Emery, Charles
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84
Ewing, J.A.
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84
Faraday, Michael (Professor)
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84
Farmer, Moses
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84
Faure, Camille
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84
Ferrari, Galileo
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84
Field, Cryus West
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84
Field, C., J.
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84
Field, Stephen D.
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84
Finsen, N.R.
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84
Fisborne, Frederic N.
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84
Fitzgerald, Desmond S.
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84
Fritsimonds, Chas.
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84
Fleming, J.A.
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84
Foote, Allen K.
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84
Forbes, George
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84
Ford, Frank R.
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84
Foster, Horatio A.
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84
Frulich, G.
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84
Fujioka, J.
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84
Gammell, Joseph, J.
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84
Geyer, William
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84
Gladstoning, J.H.
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84
Gramme, M. Zenobe
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84
Gray, Elisha
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84
Green, George F.
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84
Green, George F.
George F. Green [black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper
6.5" x 4.2"
1891
English.
George F. Green [black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000012 (AC scan number)
Arrangement
Series 4, box 85. folder George F. Green.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait by Wood of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Studio portraits
Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Green, George F., 1830-1892
Gutmann, Ludwig
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84
Guy, George H.
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84
H-M
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Hamblet, James
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85
H-M
Hamblet, James
James Hamblet [black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
Naegeli (Union Square, New York)
1 Item
Silver albumen on paper, on cabinet card.
6.5" x 4.3"
April 20, 1893
English.
85
James Hamblet
James Hamblet [black & white photoprint].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000005 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait (cabinet print) by Naegeli, 46 E. 14th St., Union Square, New York City.
New York (N.Y.) -- 1880-1890
Cabinet prints
Photographs -- 1880-1890 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen
Studio portraits
Hamblet, James, 1824-1900
Hammer, William
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85
Haskins, C.C.
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85
Haskins, Cary D.
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85
Haskins, C.H.
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85
Heaney, J. Allen
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85
Heinrich, Richard 0.
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85
Helmholtz, Herman
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85
Hering, Carl
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85
Hering, Hermann S.
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85
Hertz, H.
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85
Herzog, Benedict
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85
Hess, Adolfo G.B.
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85
Hibbord, Angus P.
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85
Hochhausen, William
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85
Hooker, J. (Sir)
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85
Hopkinson, John
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85
Hospitaller, E.
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85
Houston, E.J.
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85
Howell, Charles W.
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85
Hutchinson, Cary T.
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85
Infreville G.D.
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85
Jackson, D.C.
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85
Jameson, Andrew
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85
Jehl, Francis
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85
Joel, Henry F.
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85
Johnson, Edward
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85
Johnson, Edward
Edward H. Johnson [black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
Falk (949 Broadway, New York (N.Y.)
1 Item
Silver albumen on paper, mounted on cabinet card.
6.2" x 4.2".
Circa 1895
English.
85
Edward Johnson
Edward H. Johnson [black & white photoprint].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000008 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait (cabinet print) by Falk of New York City.
Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen
Cabinet prints
Studio portraits
Johnson, Edward H., 1846-1917
Jones, J. W.
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85
Kapp, Gisbert
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85
Kareis, T.
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85
Kelly, John F.
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85
Kemple, A.B.
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85
Khotinsky, Ade, (Capt.)
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85
Kinsman, Frank E.
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85
Kintner, Charles J.
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85
Kintner, Charles J.
Charles J. Kintner [black & white photoprint, cabinet print]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
Davis, G. W
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper, mounted.
6.3" x 4.3"
Circa 1895
English.
85
Charles Kintner
Charles J. Kintner [black & white photoprint, cabinet print].
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000006 (AC scan number)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait by G. W. Davis, with studios in Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Va. Subject's name hand-written in ink at bottom of print.
Condition
Image faded, mount ragged.
Astronomers
Cabinet prints
Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen
Studio portraits
Kintner, Charles J.
Kittier, E.
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85
Knudson, A.A.
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85
Krusi, John
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85
Lahmeyer, W.
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85
Lame, B.G.
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85
Lange, Philip A.
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85
Langley, Samuel P.
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85
Latimer, Lewis Howard
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85
Lenant, P.
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85
Lieb, A.
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85
Lieb,.J.W. Jr.
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85
Lister, Lord
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85
Lockwood, Thomas D.
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85
Lockyer, Norman (Sir)
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85
Lodge, Oliver (Sir)
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85
Loduquine, Alexander
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85
Macfarlane, A.
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86
Mackenzie, D.
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86
Macmillan, Donald B.
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86
Manfield, George W.
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86
Mann, Abbon
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86
Marconi, G
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86
Marks, Louis B.
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86
Marks, William D.
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86
Maver, William
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86
maxim, Hudson
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86
Maynard, George Colton
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86
Moedebeck, Hermann W.L.
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86
Mordry, W.M.
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86
Morrison, George P.
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86
Moses, Otto
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86
Mott, Samuel
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86
Mottelay, B.
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86
Moultou, J. Fletcher
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86
Mungle, Alexander
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86
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Nerst, Walter
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86
Niblett, J.T.
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86
Nichols, Edward L.
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86
Normize, William B.
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86
Norton, Henry
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86
Orsted, H.C.
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86
Osterberg, Max
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86
Pacinotti, Antonio
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86
Patters, J.
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86
Pender, William
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86
Perks, Robert (Sir)
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86
Perkins, Frank
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86
Perrine, Frederic A.
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86
Perry, Nelson
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86
Phelps, George M.
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86
Phillips, A.
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86
Pope, F.L.
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86
Pope, Ralph W.
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86
Poulsen, V.
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86
Powers, Longworth
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86
Preece, W.H.
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86
Price, Eliss W.
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86
Puhy, Professor D.
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86
Pupin, Michael
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86
Rae, Frank B.
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86
Reckenzam, A.
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86
Rice, E. Wilbur Jr.
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86
Ries, Elias E.
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86
Rittenhouse, Charles
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86
Roberts, E.P.
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86
Rodger, James H. (Dr.)
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86
Road, Ogden Nicholas
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86
Rohrer, A.L.
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86
Roscoe, H. (Sir)
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86
Ruhmer, Ernst
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86
Rutherford, E.
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86
Ryan, Harris J.
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86
Sargeant, W.D.
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86
Schuckert, T.
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86
Seely, John A.
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86
Seymore, F.M.
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86
Sheldon, Sarnuel
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86
Shepardson, George D.
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86
Short, Sidney
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86
Sieineus, William
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86
Siemens, Carl
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86
Siemens, Werner van
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86
Siemiens, Alex
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86
Sonn, George C. (Professor)
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86
Spagnoietti, C.E.
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86
Sperry, Edur R.
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86
Sprague, Frank J.
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86
Sprague, John T.
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86
Stanley, William
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86
Steinmetz, Charles
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86
Stieringer, Luther
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86
Stockbridge, George Herbert
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86
Sullivan, W.,J
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86
Swan, Joesph
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86
Swinton, A.A.C.
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86
T-Z
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Tanzelmann, Glade
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87
T-Z
Tesla, Nikola
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87
T-Z
Thompson, Edward P.
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87
T-Z
Thompson, Silvanua
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87
T-Z
Thomson, Elihu
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87
T-Z
Thomson, J.J.. (Sir)
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87
T-Z
Tilden, W.A. (Sir)
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87
T-Z
Trouve, Gustave
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87
T-Z
Townsend, Henry C.
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87
T-Z
Turner, Walter (Sir)
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87
T-Z
Uppenborer, F.
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87
T-Z
Upton, Francis R.
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87
T-Z
Vaile, Theordore
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87
T-Z
Van DePoele, Charles Joseph
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87
T-Z
Volta, Alexander
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87
T-Z
Waddell, Montgomery
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87
T-Z
Wallace, William
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87
T-Z
Waltenhofen, A. von (Dr.)
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87
T-Z
Webb, Herbert Laws
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87
T-Z
Webb, T.
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87
T-Z
Westinghouse, George
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87
T-Z
Weston, Edward
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87
T-Z
Wetzler, Joseph
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87
T-Z
Wheatstone, Charles (Sir)
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87
T-Z
White, William (Sir)
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87
T-Z
Wilson, Fremont
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87
T-Z
Wilson, Woodrow (President)
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87
T-Z
Wineshurst, James
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87
T-Z
Wirt, Charles
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87
T-Z
Wolcott, Townsend
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87
T-Z
Wood, James, Mannaritt
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87
T-Z
Wright, Wilbur
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87
T-Z
Wurtz, Alexander Jay
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87
T-Z
Young, A.M.
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87
T-Z
Zalinski, E.L.
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87
T-Z
Glass Plate Negatives (some broken) of various subjects
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104
Glass Plate Negatives (some broken) of various subjects
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105
Glass Plate Negatives (some broken) of various subjects
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106
Glass Plate Negatives (some broken) of various subjects
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107
Contact Prints
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Contact Prints
[William Hammer sitting in his lab, black & white photoprint]
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Hammer, William J. (William Joseph), 1858-1934 (electrical engineer)
1 Item
10.1" x 12.5"
Circa 1900
English.
89
[William Hammer sitting in his lab, black & white photoprint]
Local Numbers
AC0069-0000017 (AC scan number)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Silver gelatin on paper.
Arrangement
Series 4, box 89. folder ?.
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Lab contains a wide variety of items - books, lightbulbs, x-rays, photographs, recording machines, etc. Duplicate and cropped version of photograph in box 94, folder 3.
Light bulbs
X-rays
Photographs -- 1890-1900 -- Black-and-white photoprints
Photographs of Hammer's Collection of Incandescent Light Bulbs
Archival Resource Key
1880 1920
88
Norimberga [Nuremberg Central Station, Germany
Archival Resource Key
undated
109
5
Glass plate negatives from Ernest Ruhmer given to William Hammer in Berlin
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9 Glass plate negatives
1902-1903
110
1
Scope and Contents
Includes selenum drawings of various applications.
Photograph of J. Swan
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undated
110
2
Radio tubes, World War I aircraft transmitter, excerpts from Hammer's notebook describing "phantom shadows" and a radio exhibit
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undated
110
3
William J. Hammer with Outcault and Hardy
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110
4
Old telegraph instrument
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1922-10-31
110
5
Professor Alex J. Bell
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1 Glass plate negative
undated
110
6
Professor Heinrich Hertz
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1 Glass plate negative
undated
110
7
Gallileo Fereris
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1 Glass plate negative
undated
110
8
Vollos Family coast of arms
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1 Glass plate negative
[1900?]
110
9
Hammer glass plate negatives (from Port Chester, New York]
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14 Glass plate negatives
1880-1883-08-28
First attachment plug
Archival Resource Key
1883-08-28
111
Party wire to enter the Royal Pavilion
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undated
111
Edison signs flash intermittently, Menlo Park, New jersey
Archival Resource Key
1880-03
111
Historic attachment plug, berlin
Archival Resource Key
1883-08-28
111
Books on tables
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undated
111
Riding hall at Port Chester, New York, books in [Hammer's library?]
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undated
111
Proof of my discovery of the phantom shadow
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1881-02
111
Lamp drawing
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1880-01
111
Drawing of invention of copper plated clamps for incandescent lamps
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1880
111
Portrait of elderly man and woman
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undated
111
Lamp, Menlo Park
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1880-02-01
111
Drawing of first thought of while the...made to show before the factory started in 1880
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1880
111
Proof of my discovery of the phamtom shadow
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1881-02
111
Lamp, Menlo Park, New jersey
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1880-02
111
Copy prints of glass plate negatives
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111
Edison Central Station at Crystal Palace, International Electric Exhibition
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1882
103
6
Gebruder Korting Works, Hannover
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1900
103
6
Gebruder Korting Works, Hannover
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1900
103
6
Gebruder Korting Works, Hannover
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1900
103
6
Cockerill Blowing engine, Paris Fair
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1900
103
6
Cockerill Blowing engine, Paris Fair
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1900
103
6
Edison Central Station at Crystal Palace, International Electric Exhibition
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1882
103
6
Edison Steam Jumbo Synamo
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1881
103
6
Glass Plate Photonegatives
4.4
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Light bulb displays, Edison volunteers, and power plants
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
112
Houses, people, railroad cars
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
113
Light bulb displays
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
114
Light bulb displays
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
115
Light bulb displays
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5 Glass plate negatives
undated
116
Light bulb displays
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5 Glass plate negatives
undated
117
Light bulb displays
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3 Glass plate negatives
undated
118
Light bulb displays
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
119
Light bulb displays
Archival Resource Key
4 Glass plate negatives
undated
120
Light bulb displays
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
121
Light bulb displays
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5 Glass plate negatives
undated
122
Light bulb displays
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4 Glass plate negatives
undated
123
Riding Hall at Port Chester, #1
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undated
124
Riding Hall at Port Chester, #2
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undated
124
Riding Hall at Port Chester, #3
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undated
124
[G.E. generator?] and switch panel
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undated
124
Electrical power and switch panel
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undated
124
Dr. Hertz portrait
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undated
124
Henri Bequerel portrait
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undated
124
Mt. Royal substation
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undated
124
[#17], Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Tesla Polyphase System, Exhibit, 1893.
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1893
124
[#91], Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Exhibit, 1893.
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1893
124
[#295], Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building, Edison Photograph Exhibit and Illinois Alloy Company Exhibit, 1893.
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
[#238], Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building, Fort Wayne Electric Company, 1893.
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124
Columbian Exposition, Electricity Building
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1893
124