William A. Benney papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1250
Subjects: Machine design; Industrial Research; Artificial Rubber; Tools; Design and construction
Description: Correspondence, lists, payroll records, personal papers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed material, drawings of machinery and tools, photographs, and other papers chiefly documenting Benney's work as research superintendent at Thomas A. Edison's winter home in Fort Myers, Fla., chiefly while searching for a substitute for natural rubber.  Scrapbooks contain notes written between Benney, Charles A. Edison, and Thomas A. Edison.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 2004.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Research superintendent.

Collection material in English.

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