[Thomas Edison to Leo Baekeland: typescript letter.]
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name: label: Author
content: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
label: Names
content: Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
label: Names
content: Weston, Edward, Dr.(inventor)
label: Collection Creator
content: Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
topic: label: Topic
content: Electric generators
label: Topic
content: Dynamos
creator: label: Author
content: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
setName: label: See more items in
content: Leo H. Baekeland Papers
label: See more items in
content: Leo H. Baekeland Papers / Series 3: Correspondence / 3.1: Personal correspondence / Edison Thomas A.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Pages (Ink on paper., 11.1" x 8.4".)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 21 October 1924
container: label: Container
content: Box 9, Folder 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Signatures (names)
label: Type
content: Letters (correspondence)
label: Type
content: Typescripts
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content: Signatures (names)
label: Genre/Form
content: Letters (correspondence) -- 1920-1930
label: Genre/Form
content: Typescripts -- 1920-1930
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Typed on stationery with letterhead, "From the Laboratory / of / Thomas A. Edison, / Orange, N.Y." Edison writes to contest statements made by Baekeland about the efficiency of electrical dynamos built by Dr. Edward Weston, a competitor of Edison's. With Edison's signature and a handwritten postscript: "All this is well known to the Electrical [sic] / world and article is often quoted in / derision."