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.
2) EGE TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electricity, see also
annotation and answer October 1890.
16) Bill book 489.
3) TAE Gorton, Sept 1890, 1890 Electric Light.
14) Journal #5, p.82-83.
12) TAE P. Edison had no
intention giving the production prerecorded cylinders,
but wanted the companies appreciate the difficulties of
producing them. (Sept 1889) 165-7; Josephson, p.
6) Tate, Open Door, 141.147.
17) TAE Gorton, Nov 1891, central stations.
8) Batchelor TAE, Aug 1889, 1889 Lab.
5) TAE Edison Edison Manufacturing Co, Jan 1889, 1889
Edison Manufacturing Co.
7) Maguire Tate, July 1889, Lab general. 434-5.
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334.
10) Electrical World.S.
15) 2nd annual report EGE, Oct 1890, quoted in
Payson-Jones, 160; agreements are box D3, folder.
9) Dickson’s article Century Magazine. 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. This move was response many
complaints about recordings from the companies. 48, June 1894.-44
NOTES FOR CHAPTER SIX
1) Accounts from Billbooks, 1888-1889, ENHS.
4) Insull TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electric Light. Dyer, May 1889, 890408, pp.
Edison also told the companies that they would now have to
provide their own recorded cylinders, TAE EPW, Jan 1890,
LB 900111, pp
