147.
16) Bill book 489. Dyer, May 1889, 890408, pp.
13) TAE Edison Phonograph Works, Nov 1890, Phono EPWks. 48, June 1894.
7) Maguire Tate, July 1889, Lab general.
4) Insull TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electric Light.
10) Electrical World.
17) TAE Gorton, Nov 1891, central stations.
15) 2nd annual report EGE, Oct 1890, quoted in
Payson-Jones, 160; agreements are box D3, folder.S.
3) TAE Gorton, Sept 1890, 1890 Electric Light.
2) EGE TAE, Oct 1890, 1890 Electricity, see also
annotation and answer October 1890.82-83.
Edison also told the companies that they would now have to
provide their own recorded cylinders, TAE EPW, Jan 1890,
LB 900111, pp.1
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11) See Gordon Hendricks, The Edison Motion Picture Myth
(Berkeley: Calif Press, 1961), pp.-44
NOTES FOR CHAPTER SIX
1) Accounts from Billbooks, 1888-1889, ENHS. (Sept 1889) 165-7; Josephson, p. 434-5. Edison had no
intention giving the production prerecorded cylinders,
but wanted the companies appreciate the difficulties of
producing them.
5) TAE Edison Edison Manufacturing Co, Jan 1889, 1889
Edison Manufacturing Co.
6) Tate, Open Door, 141.
8) Batchelor TAE, Aug 1889, 1889 Lab. 335-338.
9) Dickson’s article Century Magazine.
12) TAE P.
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334. This move was response many
complaints about recordings from the companies.
14) Journal #5, p. 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
