Name/Title
Print, photographicEntry/Object ID
EDT4080Description
THESE ARE COPIES, THEY ARE OURS TO KEEP, FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES, NOT PART OF LOAN (KeAnne talked with Lorena from the Charles Edison Fund on April 5, 2013 and she said not to worry about them).
Series of 25 8 x 10 black and white Edison Collection photographs.
1. Edison at the Telegraph Key, July 1920.
2. Black Maria, the world's first motion studio was erected in 1893 on the grounds of Edison's Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. A reconstruction of this building was erected in 1954 only a short distance from the site of the original.
3. Scale model of Edison's original commercial station for generating current for incandescent light and electric power. Located at 257 Pearl street, in New York City. This station commenced operation on September 4, 1882.
4. All concrete house, Union, New Jersey, October 9, 1919. Completely poured in one day.
5. Interior of the Black Maria, the world's first motion picture studio. This drawing by R. F. Outcault appeared in the Electrical World of June 16, 1894.
6. First concrete highway in New Jersey, 1912.
7, World's first motion picture camera using strip film, Edison's 1889 Strip Kinetograph. This original machine which employed horizontal rather than vertical film strips is on display at Edison's Laboratory in West Orange, now a national historic site.
8. Interior of Peephole Kinetoscope showing the spool bank, 1894.
9. Edison's electric pen and press, later called the mineograph, invented by him in 1875.
10. Original tin-foil phonograph invented by Thomas Edison in the autumn of 1877. This phonograph may be seen at the Edison National Historic Site, which is administered by the National Park Service.
11. The "long-waisted Mary-Ann" dynamo. This "Z" type dynamo developed by Edison in 1879 had an efficiency of 90%. The theoretical limit of dynamo efficiency according to electrical science at that time was 50%.
12. Edison's electric locomotive. Built by him at Menlo Park in 1880. This was the first electric railway in this country.
13. Miner's Safety Cap Light. Note: Edison nickel-alkaline re-chargeable battery worn on belt. This outfit shown here was used daily for over 25 years in a lead mine.
14. Edison talking doll made by Edison around 1888. The small phonograph on the left of the photograph fitted into the back of the doll. The circle on the right is a cylinder record for the phonograph.
15. This Edison "Peephole Kinetoscope" invented in 1891 was the device used for showing early motion pictures. The viewer looked through an opening on top at an illuminated 35mm film moving on spools in the interior of the cabinet. Here an organ grinder with his monkey and a small friend enjoy an early Edison movie.
16. Edison Universal Printer, 1871 model, 1st commercial invention manufactured at Newark, New Jersey Factory.
17. The Edison laboratory, Menlo Park, N.J. the Eve of "the Birth of a Great Invention." (Sketch)
18. Edison sketch of November 29, 1877 was presumably used by John Kruesi to construct the first tin Foil Phonograph which he finished December 6, 1877.
19. 20 early models of phonographs with model number below each picture on page.
20. Thomas a. Edison with some of his "Edison Effect" lamps. The inventor's discovery of the "Edison Effect" in 1880 revealed the fundamental principle on which rests the modern art of electronics.
21. The upstairs room of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, showing Edison (center, wearing cap) seated with a group of his assistants. Note the incandescent lamps mounted on the old gas fixtures. Photo dated February 20, 1880.
22. Sample of the handwriting of Thomas A. Edison, November 1, 1883.
23. Thomas A. Edison demonstrated his tin-foil phonograph before the national academy of Sciences meeting in Washington, D. C. and to President Rutherford B. Hayes at the White House .This portrait was taken at Washington by Mathew Brady, Civil War photographer in April 1878.
24. Thomas A. Edison listening to his improved wax cylinder phonograph after 72 hours of continuous work on the mechanism. This photograph was taken June 16, 1888.
Update 2013: As explained by Lorena from the Edison Fund, these photographs are copies and are not part of original accession, they were given to us as part of the education behind the loan. They were originally given BF70-1-72, but changed to EDT4080. Only 24 not 25 photos.Collection
Educational Collection