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NOTES FOR CHAPTER SIX
1) Accounts from Billbooks, 1888-1889, ENHS.
15) 2nd annual report EGE, Oct 1890, quoted in
Payson-Jones, 160; agreements are box D3, folder.
Edison also told the companies that they would now have to
provide their own recorded cylinders, TAE EPW, Jan 1890,
LB 900111, pp. 335-338.1
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11) See Gordon Hendricks, The Edison Motion Picture Myth
(Berkeley: Calif Press, 1961), pp.
13) TAE Edison Phonograph Works, Nov 1890, Phono EPWks. (Sept 1889) 165-7; Josephson, p.S. 434-5.
3) TAE Gorton, Sept 1890, 1890 Electric Light.82-83.
334. This move was response many
complaints about recordings from the companies.
8) Batchelor TAE, Aug 1889, 1889 Lab.
7) Maguire Tate, July 1889, Lab general.147. His secretary followed Edison’s blunt
directive with more diplomatic note which assured the
companies that recording cylinders was not being discontinued
at the West Orange Laboratory.
4) Insull TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electric Light.
16) Bill book 489.
5) TAE Edison Edison Manufacturing Co, Jan 1889, 1889
Edison Manufacturing Co.
17) TAE Gorton, Nov 1891, central stations.
10) Electrical World.
9) Dickson’s article Century Magazine.
14) Journal #5, p. Edison had no
intention giving the production prerecorded cylinders,
but wanted the companies appreciate the difficulties of
producing them.
12) TAE P.
6) Tate, Open Door, 141. 48, June 1894. Dyer, May 1889, 890408, pp.
2) EGE TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electricity, see also
annotation and answer October 1890.
