Edison Electric Light Company records
Language: eng
Subjects: Electric power systems; Incandescent Electric lighting; Electric standards; Insurance requirements; Electric light fixtures; Electric generators; Electric railroads; Electrical engineering; Patents; Electric utilities
Description: Volume I (1879-1894) and volume II (1890-1891) contain verified copies of patents granted by the government of Canada to Thomas A. Edison and employees of his firm for improvements in incandescent lamps and methods of manufacture, fittings and fixtures, electric dynamo machines, electric railroads, and electrical generation and distribution systems; volume III (1885-1894) contains codes for insurance underwriters in the United States to create national standards for electrical construction and operation.
Notes: Open to research.

Transfer, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, 1997.

Parent company of all Edison electric light enterprises.  Established in 1878.

Collection material in English.

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