Cl £di&oru peh*

A SELECTIVE MICROFILM EDITION

PART IV (1899-1910)

Thomas E. Jeffrey Lisa Gitelman Gregory Jankunis David W. Hutchings Leslie Fields

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NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY RECORDS

The New Jersey Patent Co. was incorporated in the State of New Jersey on April 25, 1903. It was concerned primarily with obtaining and holding phonograph-related patents granted to Edison and other experimenters. It also held some securities of Edison and non-Edison companies. In 1906 Edison succeeded one of the incorporators, Louis M. Sanders, as president. In 1911 the company's property rights were transferred to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in exchange for stock in that corporation. The company was officially dissolved in 1931. The records cover the years 1 903-1 911, with a small amount of additional material from 1917, 1925, and 1926. They consist of minutes, a letterbook, a general ledger, and a journal. Unbound correspondence regarding the activities of the company can be found in the "New Jersey Patent Company" folders in the Document File Series.

The records are arranged in the following order: (1) minutes (1903-1906); (2) letterbook (1908-1910); (3) ledger (1903-1926); and (4) journal (1903-1926).

Minutes (1903-1906)

This folder consists of unbound minutes of the New Jersey Patent Co. Included are minutes of the organizational meeting of May 14, 1903; copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws; and directors' and stockholders' minutes through February 5, 1906.

Letterbook (1908-1910)

This letterbook covers the period February 1 908-June 1 91 0. It contains four letters signed by Edison as president of the New Jersey Patent Co. and two letters by Harry F. Miller, secretary and treasurer. One of Edison's letters agrees to pay Jonas W. Aylsworth $20,000 and Walter H. Miller $10,000 for making a commercially viable eight-minute record.

Ledger (1903-1926)

This ledger covers the period May 1903 to February 1911, with additional entries from 1917, 1925, and 1926. As the account book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the New Jersey Patent Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, experimental, and patent transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, patent attorneys, and other individuals and companies. Edison's account covers the period June 1 903-December 1910, with two additional entries from 1917. The entry for February 27, 1909, includes a $5,000,000 credit to Edison, indicated as "By Sundries."

Journal (1903-1926)

This journal covers the period May 1 903-February 1911, with additional entries from May 1917, December 1925, and February 1926. Chronological entries provide information about transactions posted to various accounts and recorded in the corporate ledger. The journal is a partial record and does not provide information about all of the posted transactions. The entries from February 1911 detail the sale of the company's property rights to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., for $200,000 in stock. The entries from 1 917 are in the form of directors' minutes and indicate the sale of the company's stock in Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and the purchase of outstanding New Jersey Patent Co. stock from Edison and his wife, Mina Miller Edison.

New Jersey Patent Company Records Minutes (1903-1906)

This folder consists of unbound minutes of the New Jersey Patent Co. Included are minutes of the organizational meeting of May 14, 1903; copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws; and directors' and stockholders' minutes through February 5, 1906.

All of the documents have been selected.

1 Pirst meeting of the incorporators of the New Jersey Patent

2 Company held at the office of Howard W. Hayes, No. 763

Broad Street

3 in the City of Newark, on this fourteenth day of May, 1903

at ten

4 o'clock in the forenoon.

5 Present

6 William Pelzer

7, Prederick C. Pisoher

8 Louis M. Sande ra

9 The meeting was oalled to order and Louis M. Sanders

10 was elected chairman of the meeting and Perderick C. Pis-

oher

11 secretary.

12 A waiver of notice of first meeting signed by all the

13 incorporators was presented and read at the meeting and on

14 motion was ordered to be spread upon the minutes.

15 Waiver of notice iB as follows:-

16 WAIVER OP NOTICE OP MEETING OP INCORPORATORS.

17 We the undersigned being all the incorporators of The "Nw

"New Jersey

18 Patent Company", hereby waive notice of the time, place and

purpose

19 of the first meeting of the incorporators of said Company,

■ and

20 do fix the fourteenth day of May, 1903, at ten o'clock in

the

21 forenoon as the time and the principal office of the said

Company

22 as the place of said meeting. And we hereby waive all the

23 rquirements of the statutes of New/ Jersey as to notice of

said

24 meeting and the publication thereof and consent to the

transaction

25 of such business as may come before the meeting.

26 Dated May 14 , 1903 William Pelzer

27 Prederick C. Pischer

28 Louis M. Sanders

1 A duly certified copy of the certificate of organiza¬

tion YfU3

2 then presented to the meeting and read and on motion was

3 ordered to ho spread at length upon the minutes.

4 The certificate of organization is as follows:-

5 This, is to oertify that We, William Pelzer, Frederick C.

6 Fisoher and Louis If. Banders, do hereby associate ourselves

into a

7 corporation, by virtue of the provisions of an act of the

Legislature of

8 New Jersey entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations"

(revision of 1896)

9 approved April 21st, 1896, and the several supplements

thereto for the

10 purposes hereinafter mentioned, and to that end we do by

this our

11 certificate set forth

12 FI rot : The name of the corporation is:

13 "NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY"

14 Second: The location of the principal office in this

State is at

15 the comer of Valley Road and Lakeside Avenue in the Town¬

ship of

16 West Orange, in the County of Essex.

17 The name of the agent therein and in charge thereof

18 upon process against the corporation may be served is John

19 F. Randolph.

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Third: The objects for which this corporation is formed

are to

apply for, obtain, register, purchase or otherwise acquire, and to feh&d, own,

use, operate, Bell, assign, or otherwise dispose of any and all in¬ vent ionB, improvements and processes and letters patent therefor and

any and all formulae, secret processes, trade marks, trade names

and distinctive marks in the United States and other Countries, and

to ubb, exercise, grant licenses in respect of or otherwise turn to

account any and all such inventions, improvements, process¬ es. letters

patent, formulae, secret peoesses, trade marks, trade

names,

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and distinctive marks, and to do any and all things nec¬ essary

or useful for the purpose of oarrying out the foregoing ob- j ects in any

part of thw world as principal, agent, trustee, or other¬ wise.

fourth: The total arrount of the capital stock is

Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.)

the number of shares into which the same is divided is one hundred

(100) and the pair value of each share is one hundred dol¬ lars ($100.)

The amount with which said corporation will commence

business is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.) which is divid¬ ed into ten

(10) shares of the par vakue of One hundred dollars ($100.) eaoh.

Eifth: The names and residences of the incorporators and

the

number of shares subscribed for by each, are as follows NAMES P. 0. ADDRESS NO. OE SHARES

William Pelzer New York, N.Y. four shares

Erederick C. Eischer Newark, N. J. three shares

Louis M. Sanders Washington, D.C. three shares

IN WITNESS WHEREOE, We have hereunto set our hands and seals

the twenty-third day of April, One thousand nine hundred and three.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered )

in the presence of ) William Pelzer (LS.)

Howard W. Hayes Ered'k C. Eischer (LS.)

Louis M, Sanders (LS.)

State of New Jersey )

) ss.

County of Essex ) Be it remembered that on this

twenty -third

day of April in the year of Our Lord One j

thousand nine hundred and three, before me'the subscriber, a Master in

1 Chancery of New Jersey, personally appeared William Pelzer

2 Frederick C. Fischer and Louis H. Sandersm who, I am satis¬

fied

3 are the persons named in and who executed the foregoing

4 Certificate of Incorporation, and I hairing first made

known to

5 them the contents thereof, they severally acknowledged that

they

6 signed, sealed and (faeiixaxral executed the same as their

voluntary act and

7 deed, for the uses and purposes therein expressed,

8 Howard W. Hayes,

9 Master in Chancery

10 of New Jersey.

11 Endorsed:

12 "Received and recorded in the office of the Clerk

of the

13 County of Essex this 24th day of April 1903.

14 Book 27 of Incor. Bus. Co. page 33.

15 Arthur Ho rt on,

16 Clerk"

17 "Filed Apr. 25, 1903.

18 S. D. Dickinson,

19 Secretary of State."

20 The following By-Laws were then presented to the meeting

and

21 read and discussed section by section and adopted unani¬

mously. On

22 motion they were ordered to be spread at length upon the

minut es .

23 BY-LAWS

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Dlg'set o rs 26

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"NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY"

The number of directors shall be three of whom two

shall be a quorum. They shall be ejected by the stock¬ holders ;

at their regular annual meeting and shall hold office one year

1 and until their suoceBBors shall he elected.

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3 The officers of the Company shall he a President, a Vioe

4 President, a Secretary and Treasurer, who shall he eleoted

hy

5 the Board of Directors and shall hold their respective

offices for one

6 year and Until their successors shall he elected.

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8 The Board of Directors shall appoint such other minor

9 offioera and agents as they shall deem advisable and may

/ delegate

10 the power to the General Manager.

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12 The Board of Directors shall fix the salaries of the

officers

13 and agents of the Company.

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15 Vacancies among the officers or directors shall he filled

16 hy the Board of Directors.

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18 Tho Board of Directors shall regularly meet on the

19 first Monday of the month of May, August, November and

Pebruary in each year

20 Special Meet ings shall he called hy the President at the

21 request of two directors and ten days notice shall he given

of the same

22 The meetings within this state shall he held at West Orange

23 At the meetings the order of business shall he:

24 1. Roll Call

25 2. Reading of Minutes

26 3. Report of Standing Committee.;?

27 4. Report of Special Committees

28 5. Unfinished business

29 6. New Business

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Stockhold- 3 ers

Meetings 4

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Treasur- 11 er' s

Bond 12

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Stock 15

Certifi¬ cate 10

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Dividends 20 21

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Seal 23

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By-Laws 26

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7. Adjournment.

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An annual meeting of stockholders fior the election of Directors shall ho held at West Orange, N.J., on the first Monday of May in each year at twelve o'clock noon and the polls shall remain open one hour.

Notice of such meeting shall be given by the secretary

by mailing a notice to each stockholder at least five days before

each meeting.

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The T rat| surer shall give a bond to the Company in such

sum and with such Bifficient sureties as shall be approved by

the Board of Directors.

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Stock of the Company shall be transferred only on the stock Certificate Book of the Company and shall be signed by the President and Treasurer and the corporate seal shall be affixed thereto.

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Dividends of the net profits of the Company may be

deolared from time to time by the Directors in their dis¬ cretion.

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The seal of the Company shall bear the corporate name of

the Company with a suitable device and the words "Incorpor¬ ated 1903“

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The By-Laws may be altered or amended by a two-thirds vote of thoso present at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors,

1 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the elec¬

tion

2 ofl directors of the Corporation to serve for the ensuing

year

3 and until their successors are elected.

4 Motion carried unanimously.

5 The meeting then proceeded to the election of directors

and

6 the following persons were unanimously elected.

7 William Pelzer

8 Frederick C. Fischer

9 Louis M. Sanders

10 Moved and seconded that the directors he authorized

11 to levy an assessment of 100 per cent on the capital stock

12 already sub scribed for.

13 Motion carried unanimously.

14 Moved and seconded that the directors of the corporation

15 have power from time to time to issue the stock of the Com¬

pany

16 up to the amount authorized by the certificate of organiza¬

tion

17 in their discretion, either for cash or for property pur¬

chased,

18 and to purchase such patents, patent rights, trade mark sip

19 trade names, seoret processes, formulae and inventions

either

20 for cash or by the issue of such stock aB they may deem

21 advisable.

22 Motion carried unanimously.

23 On motion the meeting then adjourned.

24 Frederick C. Fischer,

25 Secretary.

1 First meeting of the directors of the "New Jersey Patent

Company"

2 held this eighteenth day of May, 1903, at ten o'clock in

the forenoon

3 in the office of Howard W. Hayes, 765 Broad Street, Newark

N. J.

4 pursuant to notioe,

5 Present

6 William Pelzer

7 Frederick C. Fisoher

8 louis M. Sanders

9 The meeting was oalled to order and Louis M. Sanders 10 was chosen chairman and Frederick C. Fischer Secretary.

11 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the elec¬

tion

12 of officers for the ensuing year.

13 Motion carried.

The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers and the

following were elected.

Louis M. Sanders William Pelzer Frederick C. Fischer

President Vice President Secretary and Treasurer

The statutory oath was then administered to the Secretary.

Moved and seconded that an assessment of one hundred per cent he levied on the stock already subscribed Motion carried.

The treasurer then reported that an assessment

assessment

1 of one hundred per cent on the stock already subscribed had

2 been paid in full.

3 Moved and seconded that the Treasurer be authorized

4 to purchase the necessary books and stationery and to de¬

fray

5 the expense of incorporation.

6 Mot ion oarried.

7 The following resolution was then presented and on motion

8 duly seconded was unanimously adopted.

9 "Resolved that the Treasurer be authorized to

10 "dispose of the stook in the treasury of the Coiuxiany

11 "at par, first offering it to the present stock-

12 "holders of the Company in proportion to their

13 "respective holdings.",

14 Louis H. Sanders then tendered his resignation

15 as President and director of the Company to take effect at

the

&6 adjournment of the present meeting.

17 On motion his resignation was accepted.

18 Moved and seconded that the Board proceed to the

19 election of a director to fill the vacancy in the board

20 Mot ion carried.

21 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a director

22 to fill the vacancy in the board and John V. Miller was

23 elected director.

24 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the

25 eleot ion of a President to fill the vacancy caused by

26 the resignation of Louis M. Sanders.

27 Mot ion oarried.

X She mooting then proceeded to the election of a

2 President and John V. Miller was elected President.

3 William Pelzer then tendered hia resignation as

4 Vice President and direotor of the Company, to take effect

5 on the adjournment of the present meeting.

6 On Motion Mr, Pelzer's resignation as Vioe President

7 and direotor was accepted.

8 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to

9 the election of a direotor to fill the vacancy in the

10 Board caused by the resignation of Mr. Pelzer.

11 Mot ion carried.

12 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a

13 director to fill the vacancy in the Board and Howard

14 W. Hayes was duly elected director.

15 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to the

16 election of a Vice President, to fill the vacancy caused

17 by the resignation of Mr. Pelzer.

18 Mot ion carried.

19 The meeting then proceeded to the election of a

20 Vice President and Howard W. Hayes was duly elected

21 Vioe President .

22 Prederick C. Pischer then tendered his resignation

23 as Secretary and Treasurer and director of the Company

24 to take effect on the adjournment of the present meeting

25 On motion his resignation was aooapted.

X Moved and seconded that the Board prooeed to the

2 election of a director to fill the vacancy in the Board

3 Motion carried.

4 The mooting than proceeded to the election of a

6 director to fill tho vacancy in the Board and John

6 F. Randolph wa3 elected director.

7 Moved and seconded that the meeting proceed to

8 the Election of a Secretary and Treasurer to fill the

9 vacancy caused hy the resignation of Mr. Fischer.

10 Motion carried.

11 The meoting then proceeded to the election of a

12 Secretary and Treasurer and John F. flandolph was elected

13 Secretary end Treasurer.

14 On motion the meeting adjourned.

15 Fred’M C. Fi sober.

16 Secretary.

X Special Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of t he-

S Hew Jersey Patent Company.

4 Held at the office of the Company on Monday June 22,1903

5 at throe o'clock P. M.

6 Present: Howard W. Hayeo and J. P. Bandolph, a majority

of

7 of the Board of Directors.

8 The Vice President, Howard W. Hayes, in the chair.

9 On motion duly seconded and unanimously carried the

Treasurer

10 was authorized to open a Bank acoount in the name Oi the

11 Compary, and that all checks, araftB and notes drawn hy the

12 Company should he signed hy him.

13 There being no further business u on motion duly seconded

14 the meeting adjourned.'

15 J. B. Bandolph

16

Seoretary .

SpeoiaX Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of the-

3 Hew Jersey Patent Company.

4 Held at the office of the Company on August 31st, 1903

5 at eleven thirty o'clock A. .M.

6 Present:- Howard W. Hayes and J. P. Bandolph a majority

7 of the Board.

8 The Vice-President, Howard W. Hayes, in the chair.

9 Upon motion duly seconded and unanimously carried the

10 following resolution was adopt ed:-

11 "RESOLVED, that William E. Gilmore, of the City of Orange

12 Hew Jersey, he and he hereby is authorised to execute in

13 the name and on behalf of the New Jersey Patent Company,

14 a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Hew

15 Jersey, licenses under any Patents owned in whole or in

16 part by the said corporation, or under which it holds

17 licenses to such persons or corporations, and under such

18 terms as he may deem advisable."

There being no further business upon motion duly seconded the meeting adjourned.

J. P. Randolph,

Secretary.

1 Special Meeting of the Board of Directors

2 -of the-

3 New Jersey Patent Company

4 Hold at the office of the Company on September 11th, 1903 at twelve

6 o'clock noon pursuant to notice.

6 Present:- Mesons. John V. Miller and J. P. Randolph

7 The President in the Chair.

8 The Secretary reported that the purpose of this meeting

was t,o

9 elect a direotor to fill the vacancy in the Board caused by

the

10 resignation of Howard W. Hayes.

11 On motion duly made and seconded and by the affirmative

13 vote of all present William 35. Oilmore was regularly nomi¬

nated

13 and duly eleoted Director and Vioe-President to fill the

vacancy for

14 the unexpired ten.

15 There being no further business upon motion duly seconded

16 the meeting adjourned?

17 J. P. Randolph,

18

Secretary.

1 Special Koeting

2 Special mooting of the board of directors of the New

3 Jersey Patent Company held this twenty-sixth day of

4 January i nineteen hundred and six, at the laboratory

5 of Thomas A. Edison, at four o’clock in the afternoon

6 pursuant to notice.

7 Present

8 John V. Hiller

9 John 7?. Randolph

10 Ur. John V. ’filler, the President, presided as

11 chairman of the meeting.

12 Mr. John P. Randolph the Secretary, then read the

13 copy of the notice sent to the directors specifying the

14 purpose of this meeting.

15 "West Orange, N.J., Jan. 15th, 1906.

16 Dear Sir:-

17 A special meeting of the hoard of directors of the New

IB Jersey Patent Company will be held on the twenty-sixth

19 day of January, 1906, for the purpose of amending and

20 changing the charter of this Company and pass the

21 necessary preambles and resolutions for the consideration

by

22 of the stockholders at a meeting to be called them

23 to specially act upon the same.

24 Yours truly,

25 John P. Randolph,

26 Secretary."

X The meeting then proceeded to the discussion of the

2 amendments and changes necessary.

3 It vma on motion duly made and seconded and by the

4 unanimous consent of all present -

5 HESOLVED, That the charter of this Company, dated

6 April 23, 1903, be amended as follows: Insert at the end

7 of Seotion 3, mating the following a part thereof, viz:-

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,9 To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire

10 goods, wares, merchandise and personal property of every

11 class and descript ion, and to hold, own, mortgage, sell

12 or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with

13 the same.

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15 To acquire and undertake the goodwill, property,

16 rights, franchise and assets of evejy kind and the liabili-

17 ties of any person, firm, association or corporation,

18 either wholly or partly, and to pay for the same in cash,

19 stock or bonds of the corporation, or otherwise.

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21 To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts

22 of every kind and for any lawful purpose with any person,

23 fin#, association or corporation.

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2 To borrow or raise money without limit as to amount

3 by the iesue of or upon debentures or debenture stock, or in

4 such other manner as the corporation shall think fit.

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6. To draw, make, endorse, accept, discount, execute,

7 and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, warrants,

8 bonds, debentures and other negotiable or transf errable in-

9 strunents.

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11 To take out patents, acquire those taken out by others,

12 acquire or grant licenses in respect to patents, or work

13 transfer, or do whatever else with them may be thought fit.

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15 To conduct business in any of the states, territories,

16 colonies or dependencies of the United States, in the

17 District of Columbia, and in any and all foreign

18 countries, to have one or more offices therein, and to

19 hold, purchase, mortgage and convey real and

20 personal property, without limit as to amount therein,

21 but always subject to the laws thereof.

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23 To remunerate any person or corporation for services

24 rendered, or to be rendered, in placing or assisting to

25 place or guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares

26 of stock of the corporation, or any debentures or other

27 securities of the corporation, or in or about the formation

1 or promotion of the corporation, or in the conduct of its

2 business.

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4 Subject to the provisions of law to purchase, hold and

5 re-issue the shares of- its capital stock.

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7 To do any or all of the things herein set forth to the

8 same extent as natural persons might or oould do, and

9 in any part of the world.

10 The forfegoing. clauses shall be construed both as objeots

11 and powers.

12 In general, to carry on any other business in connection

13 with the foregoing, whether manufacturing or otherwise,

14 and to have and to exercise all the powers conferred by the

15 laws of New Jersey upon corporations formed under the "Act

16 Concerning Corporations" (revision of 1896) and the acts

17 amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; it being

18 hereby expressly provided that the foregoing enumeration

19 ofl specific powers shall not be held to limit or restrict

20 in any manner the powers of the corporation.

21 The board of directors shall, in addition to the

22 powers conferred by statute, have power:-

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24 To hoi'fl their meetings, to have one. or more offices,

26 and to keep the books of the corporation within or without

X the State of New Jersey, at such places as may befrom time

2 to time designated by them, but the Company shall always

3 keep at its principi.1 and registered office in New Jersey a

4 transfer book in which the transfers of stock can be made efite entered and registered, and also a stock book containing

6 the names and addresses of the stockholders and the

7 number of shares held by them respectively, which said

8 transfer book and stock book. shall be at all times

9 during business hours open to the inspection of the stock

holders

10 in person. Any stockholder of record shall be entitled

11 to a list of the stockholders, with the addresses

12 thereof and the number of shares held by each respectively

13 upon prepayment to the registered agent in New JsrBey

14 of a reasonable charge for making a copy thereof.

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16 Subject as aforesaid, to determine from time to time

17 whether and if allowed, under what conditions and

18 regulations, the accounts and books of the company

19 (other than the stock and transfer hook) or any of them,

20 shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders, and

21 the stockholder's rights in this respect are and shall be

22 restricted or limited accordingly.

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24 Without the assent or vote of the stockholders to make,

26 alter, amend and rescind the by-laws of this corporation,

26 1 to fix the amount to be reserved as working capital, to

27 authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and

28 liens without limit as to amount upon the real and

29 personal property of the corporation, provided always,

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that a majority of the whole hoard concur therein.

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3 With the consent in writing and pursuant also to the

4 affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock

issued

5 and outstanding, at a stockholders' meeting duly called

6 for that purpose, to sell, assign, transfer or otherwise

7 dispose of the property of the corporation as an entirety

8 provided always that a majority of the whole hoard

9 concur therein.

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11 If the hy-laws shall so provide, hy resolution,

12 passed hy a majority vote of the whole hoard, to designate

13 two or more of their number to constitute an executive

14 committee, which committee shall for the time being

15 as provided in said resolution or in the hy-laws, have

16 and exercise all the powers of the hoard of directors .which

17 may he lawfully delegated, in the management of

18 the business and affairs of the company, and shall

19 have power to authorise the seal of the corporation

20 to he affixed to all papers which may require it.

21 The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter,

22 or change any provision contained in this certificate

23 of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter

24 prescribed hy statute and all rights conferred on

25 stockholders herein are granted subject to this

reservat ion.

X WRTH3SR RESOLVED, That a moo tins of

2 to talcfl action upon the foregoing ros

3 to he held at the principal office of

side

4 Avenue and Valley Road, West Orange,

5 the fifth day of February, nineteen ft

6 at eleven A. 15.

7 There being no further business the

8 adjourned.

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10

the stockholders olut ion be called the Company at Lake- New Jersey, on undred and six,

meeting

Secretary.

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Special meeting of the New Jersey Patent Company held this fifth day of Pebruary, 1906, at the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison at eleven A. U. pursuant to notice.

Present

John V. Hiller John P. Bandolph William E. Gilmore

The President called the meeting to order at eleven o ' clock

The Secretary then read the notice sent to the stock¬ holders specifying the purpose of this meeting, a copy of which notice is as followB:-

"West Orange, N.J., Jan. 26, 1906.

Dear Sir:-

A special meeting of the at ockholde rs of the New Jersey Patent Company will be held on the fifth day of Pebruary, 1906, for the purpose of taking action on the amendments and changes to the charter and by-laws of this Company, which amendments and changes have been reoommended by resolution of the board of directors at a meeting held on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1906; and for such other business as may come before the meeting at that time.

Yours respectfully,

John P. Bandolph

Secretary.

adopted by the

The Secretary then read the resolution board of

directors at their meeting hold January 2.0, , 1906, which is

particularly set out board

ofi directors held on a

Inutes of the meeting of the

After discussing the amendments and changes to the charter

section for section, it wa3

8 That the resolutions embodying the amendments

9 suggested by the directors, be and the same are hereby a-

dopt ed

10 and ejiproved, and the following named stockholders

11 William 33. Gilmore, John ]?. Randolph and John V. Miller,

12 being all stockholders and owning all the stock of the

corporation

13 signed their written assent to such changes and amendments.

14 There being no further business the meeting adjourned.

16

Secretary,

1 Annual meet lng of the stookhol dors of the j>T e\i Jersey

2 Patent Company hold this fifth dan of February, 1906, at

the

3 Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, corner Lakeside Avenue and

4 Valley Road, at On® o'clock P. M. , pursuant to notice.

5 The meeting was called to order by William E. Gilmore

6 who, upon motion, was unanimously chosen chairman, and

7 Mr. Randolph was appointed Secretary of the meeting.

8 The Secretary then stated that Mr. John V. Miller

9 had this day transferred his st, ock in this Company to Mr?

10 Thomas A. Edison.

11 Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was

12 RESOLVED ,

13 That the time within which sjrock can be

14 transferred ypon the books of the Company be and the same 16 is hereby waived, and that Mr. Edison be and he Aa hereby

16 entitled to vote the number of shares he now holds.

17 Mot ion carried.

18 The Secretary then read the roll of stockholders entitled

19 to vote at thfcomeeting with the following result

20 RARE NO. OP SHARES

21 Thomas A. Edison 30 shares

22 John P. Randolph 30 "

23 William E. Gilmoi

40

1 being all the stockholders in interest holding all the

stock

2 issued and outstanding of the Company.

3 The Secretary presented and read a copy of notice of

4 the meeting with proof of the due mailing thereof to each

stock-

5 holder of the Company at least five day3 before the meeting

as

6 required by the by-laws.

7 The stock book of the Company, together with a full

8 true and complete list in alphabetical order of all the

9 stockholders entitled to vote at the ensuing election,

10 with the residences of each and the number of shares

11 held by each , were produced and remained during

12 the election open to inspection.

13 Upon motion duly made and seconded the reading

14 of the minuteB of the last annual meeting, together

IB with all the stockholders’ and directors' meeting to the

16 present date, were read and upon motion duly

17 made and seconded and by the unanimous consent

18 of all the stockholders presont,i t was

19 HBSOIiVKD, That the actions taken and the resolut ions

20 passed and a doptsd, and the contracts entered into by

21 the stockholders and the board of directors and the offi¬

cers

22 from the date of the last annual m eting of the stock-

23 holders to this date be and the same are hereby ratified

24 adopted and confirmed.

1 Upon motion duly made and seconded Messrs. William

2 Seize r sr-d John B. Helm Wfo appointed ins; actors of elec¬

tion

3 and duly s'vo rn .

4 The following By-laws vrero then prasonted to the

5 meeting and after being discussed section by sect icn , it

6 was, on motion duly mads and seconded and by the

7 unanimous -vote of all present, RESOLVED, that the By-Laws

8 as presented, he and they hereby are adopted and that

9 all other By-Laws inconsistent therewith be rescinded

10 The By-Laws are as’ follows

11 BY- LAV/S OB THE NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY.

12 All meetings of stockholders shall be held at the

13 corner of Lakeside Avenue and Valley Hoad, West Orange

14 the registered office, in New Jersey.

Stockhold-J-5 A majority of the Bftockh.tJiflued and outstanding ers

Meetings l6 represented by the holders thereof, either in person or by

17 proxy shall be a quorum at all meetings of stockholders.

18 The annual meeting of stockholders, after the year 1906,

19 shall be held on the second Monday of .Tune, in each

20 year at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when they shall

21 elect, by a plurality vote, by ballot, the board of direc¬

tors

22 as constituted by these by-laws, each stockholder being

23. entitled to one vote in person or by proxy, for each 24 share of stock standing registered in his or her name

26 on the twentieth day preceding the election, exclusive of the

26 day of such election.

I Kot ice of the annual mealing shill be mailed to each

£ stocfchold oz' at hlJj o c her address as the same app are upon

S the. ro corcls of the oorapaiy at least ten days prior to the

mooting.

4 At Much annual meeting, if a majority of the stock

5 shall not be represented, tho stockholders present shall

have

6 power to adjourn to a day certain, and notice of the m et-

ing

7 of the adjourned day shell be given by dopo3iting the same

8 in the post-office addressed to each stockholder at least

9 five days before such adjourned meet ing, exclusive of the

10 day of mailing, but if a majority of the stock be present

II in person or by proxy, they shall have po e’er from time

12 to time to adjourn the annual meeting to any subsequent

13 day or days, and no notice of the adftoufcned mooting need

14 be given.

15 Special meetings of the stockholders shall, at the 10 request of a majority of. the directors, be called by the 17 secretary by mai ling a notice at at ing the object of

18 such mee ting, at least two days prior to the data of

19 meeting, to each stockholder of reoord at his address

20 as the same appears on tho records of the company.

Directors 21 22

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24

25

The directors, three in number, shall be chosen from the stockholders and shall hold office for one year or until others are elected and qualified in their stead. Tho number of directors may be increased or decreased by amendment of this provision of the by-laws.

A majority of the quo ru$

for th* transact ion of Vci)

s!;all constitute a

Director's3 Meetings of the hoard may he called hy the president on

Meetings;

Quorum. 4 one day's notice hy mail or personally to each director.

5 The directors may hold their meetings and have an

6 office and keep the hooks of the company (except the stock

7 and transfer hooks) outside of tho State of 3Tew Jersey.

8

Powers of 9. Directors

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The hoard of directors shall have the management of the business of the company, and may, subject to the provisions

of the statute, of the charter and these by-la?/s, exercise all such

powers and do all such things as may he exercised or done hy the corporation.

Executive 43 Committee

14

16

16

There may he an executive committee appointed hy the hoard who shall meet when they see fit . They shall have

authority to oxnroise all the powers of the hoard at any time

when the hoard is not in session.

17

Officers. 18 19

21

At the first meeting after the annual election of direc¬ tors

when there shall he a quorum, the hoard of directors shall elect a. president and vice-president from their own number who shall hold office for one year and, until his successor is appointed and qualified.

22 The hoard shall also annually choose a secretary

23 and a treasurer, who need not he a member of the hoard,

24 who shall hold offioe for one year, subject to removal

at any time

1 by the board with or without cause. The board

2 may also appoint and remove suoh other offioers and agents

3 as they deem proper.

President 4

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6

7

8

Vice- 9 President

10

The president shall be the chief executive officer, and

head of the company, and in the recess of the board of

directors and of the executive committee shall have general

control and management of its business and affairs

He shall, with the treasurer, Bign all certificates of stock.

The vice-president shall perform all duties of the pre¬ sident

in his absence.

11 The secretary shall be: ex-officio clerk of the board of

12 directors and of the standing committees; he shall attend

13 all sessions of the board, and shall record all votes

14 and the minutes of all proceedings in a book to be

15 kept for that purpose.

16 He shall give notice of all calls for instalments to

17 be paid by the stockholders, and shall see that proper

notioe

18 is given of all meetings of the stockholders and of the

19 board of directors.

20 He shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his

21 duty and shall perform such duties as may be

22 required by the board of directors or the president.

23

The 24 Treasurer

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27

The treasurer shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the company and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effeots in the name and to the credit of the company in such depositories as

1 may be designated by the President or the board of direc¬

tors.

2 He shall disburse the funds of the Company as may

3 be ordered by the President or the board, taking proper

vouchers

4 for such disbursements, and shall render to the president

5 and directors at the regular meetings of the board, and

6 whenever they may require it, account of all his tranBao-

t ions

7 as treasurer and of the financial condition of the comjjany

8 He shall, with the president, sign all certificates of

stock.

Treasurer'S The Treasurer shall give a bond to the Company

Bond

10 for the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum

11 and with such surety as the board may require.

12 If the office of any director or member of the exe- Vacancles 13 cutive committee, or of the president, vice-president,

14 secretary or treasurer, one or more, becomes vacant,

15 by reason of death, resignation, disqualification or

16 otherwise, the remaining directors, although less

17 than a quorum, by a majority vote, may elect a

18 successor or successors, who shall hold offloe for

19 the unexpired tern.

Duties of go In case of the absence of an officer of the company, Officers

May I56 21 or for any other reason that may seem sufficient to

Delegated

22 the board, the board of directors may delegate his

23 power and duties for the time being to any other

24 officer, or to any director.

Fiscal 26

The fiscal year of the company Bhall begin the

Year.

26 first day of March in each year.

1 Dividends upon the capital stock of the company when

2 earned shall he payable at such times as the hoard of

3 directors may deem advisable.

Dividends 5 6

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8

9

10 11 12

Before payment of any dividends or making any

distribution of profits, there may be set aside out of the net

profits of the company such sun or sums as the directors from time to time in their absolute discretion think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining qny property of the company, or for any other such purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interests of the company.

Waiver of 13 Any stockholder or director may waive any notice Notice

14 required to be given under these by-laws.

15

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26

The stockholders by the vote of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding, may at any annual or special meeting alter, or amend thBae by-laws if notioe thereof be contained in the notice of the meeting.

The board of directors by a vote of the majority members may alter or amend these by-laws at any time provided three days' notioe in writing shall have been givon,to each of the directors of the proposed amendment, or the same may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the board without notice, provided all the directors are present and consent unanimously to any proposed amendment.

1 Upon motion duly made and aeoonded the meeting

2 proceeded to the nomination and election of three directors

3 by ballot , in accordance with the by-laws and the

4 polls were opened at one fifteen P. M. and the stock- 6 holders prepared their billots and delivered them to

6 the inspectors.

7 After all the ballots had been cast the inspectors

8 reported the following result: That there had been

9 three ballots oast representing one hundred shares of stool:

10 being all the oapital stock of the Company issued and

11 put standing; that the ballots had been oast for

12 Thomas A. Edison, 'William E. Gilmore and John E.

13 Randolph; and that each of said stockholders

14 received one hundred votes.

15 The chairman then declared Messrs. Thomas

16 A. Edison, William E. Gilmore and John E. Randolph

17 elected directors to serve for the ensuing year and

18 until their suooeBsora should be elected.

19 On motion the meeting adjourned to Monday

20 the 19th day of Eebruary, at eleven A. M.

21 22

Secretary.

1 Meeting of the hoard of directors of the New Jersey

2 Patent Company held this fifth day of Pehrrary, 1906, at

the

3 laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, corner lakeside Avenue and

4 Valley Road, at two o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur¬

pose

5 of organizing the hoard of directors and electing officers

6 for the ensuing year.

7 Hr. William E. Gilmore presided as temporary chairman

8 of the meeting and Mr. John E. Randolph as temporary

9 Secretary of the meeting.

10 The chairman oalling the meeting to order stated

11 its purpose.

12 It was moved that the meeting proceed to the

13 election of officers to serve for the ensuing year and

until

14 their sucoeesorB should he elected or chosen.

16 On motion Mr. Thomas A. Edison was nominated

16 for President.

17 There being no other nominations the nominations

18 were ordered closed and the Secretary was instructed to

19 cast the ballot .

20 He reported that Mr. Thomas A. Edison had

21 received all the votes.

22 The chairman then declared Mr. Thomas A.

23 Edison unanimously elected President of the Company

24 to serve for the ensuing year and until his

1 successor shoxild be chosen.

2 On motion Mr. William IS. Gilmore was nominated &ax.

3 for Vico President.

4 There being no other nominations the nominations

5 were ordered olosed and the Secretary was instructed to

6 cast the ballot .

7 He reported that Mr. William E. Gilmore had received

8 all the votes.

9 The chairman then declared Mr. William E. Gilmore

10 unanimously elected Vice-President of the Company

11 to serve for the snsuing year and until his successor

12 should be elected.

13 On motion Mr. «Tohn P. Randolph was nominated

14 for Treasurer.

15 There being no other nominat ions the nominations 15 were ordered closed and the Secretary was instructed

17 jto oast the ballot.

18 He reported that Mr. John P. Randolph had received

19 all the votes.

20 The chairman then declared Mr. John P. Randolph

21 unanimously eleoted Treasurer of the Company to

22 serve for the ensuing year and until his successors

23 should be chosen v*.

X On mot ion duly made and seconded the chairman

2 was requested to appoint a Secretary to hold office at the

3 pleasure of the heard of directors.

4 The chairman' then appointed Mr. Alphonse West ee

5 Secretary of the Company to hold office at the pleasure of

6 the hoard of directors. '

7 There being no further business the meeting adjourned

8 to meet on the 19th day of February, 1906.

9

10

Secretary,

New Jersey Patent Company Records Letterbook (1908-1910)

This letterbook covers the period February 1 908-June 1910 It contains four letters signed by Edison as president of the New Jersey Patent Co. and two letters by Harry F. Miller, secretary and treasurer. One of Edison's letters agrees to pay Jonas W. Aylsworth $20,000 and Walter H. Miller $10,000 for making a commercially viable eight-minute record. The front cover is marked 1 908 1 91 0 N.J. Patent Co." The spine is stamped "Letters" and "3." The book contains 298 numbered pages; it has been used to page 7.

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IT E W JERSEY PATENT C OK? A IT Y

Orange, w. J., Pet. 19,1903

A Rational Bank,

Newark, Nc J.

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allowing resolution was adopted:

VTCU, that on and after the 13 th day of February, 1908, d notes drawn by the New Jersey Patent Ooaroany 3hail be H. F. Miller as Treasurer, or by J V. Miller as Treasurer, and countersigned bv the President or Vice-

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New Jersey Patent Company Records Ledger (1903-1926)

This ledger covers the period May 1 903 to February 1911, with additional entries from 1917, 1925, and 1926. As the account book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the New Jersey Patent Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, experimental, and patent transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, patent attorneys, and other individuals and companies. Edison's account covers the period June 1903- December 1910, with two additional entries from 1 91 7. The entry for February 27, 1909, includes a $5,000,000 credit to Edison, indicated as "By Sundries." The front cover is labeled "Ledger N.J. Patent Co." The book contains 138 numbered pages and an index; many pages are blank.

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This journal covers the period May 1 903-February 1911, with additional entries from May 1917, December 1925, and February 1926. Chronological entries provide information about transactions posted to various accounts and recorded in the corporate ledger. The journal is a partial record and does not provide information about all of the posted transactions. The entries from February 1 91 1 detail the sale of the company's property rights to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., for $200,000 in stock. The entries from 1917 are in the form of directors' minutes and indicate the sale of the company's stock in Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and the purchase of outstanding New Jersey Patent Co. stock from Edison and his wife, Mina Miller Edison. The front cover is labeled "Journal. N.J. Patent Co."The book contains 152 numbered pages; it has been used to page 57.

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The North Jersey Paint Co. was organized in April 1 908. It was a New Jersey corporation concerned primarily with the manufacture and sale of waterproof paint for use with cement. Walter S. Mallory served as the company's president; William H. Mason, superintendent of the Edison Portland Cement Co. and later the inventor of Masonite, was secretary- treasurer. Edison held the majority of issued stock. The company was based in Stewartsville, New Jersey, the site of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant, and had a sales office in New York City. The records cover the years 1908-1918. They consist of two ledgers, a daybook, and a cash book.

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Ledger (1908-1910)

This ledger covers the period May 1908-December 1910. As the account book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the North Jersey Paint Co. Separate accounts detail cash, general expense, sales, and other transactions. Included are accounts with Edison, the Edison Portland Cement Co., and other individuals and companies.

Ledger (1911-1918)

This ledger covers the period January 1911 -December 1 91 8. As the account book of final entry, it summarizes transactions pertaining to the business of the North Jersey Paint Co. Separate accounts detail general expense, sales, and other transactions.

Daybook (1908-1918)

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Cash Book (1908-1918) [not selected]

This cash book covers the period July 1908-January 1918. Chronological entries provide information about transactions posted to the cash account.

North Jersey Paint Company Records Ledger (1908-1910)

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PRIMARY PRINTED SERIES

This collection contains printed documents issued by both Edison and non-Edison companies. Although the bulk of the material consists of promotional brochures, there are also official reports, instruction manuals, catalogs, lists of equipment and devices, and reprints of scholarly papers. The items selected indicate specifications for, or improvements in, various Edison products; provide instructions for their sale or use; describe unusual promotions; exemplify strategies for marketing; or document the commercial activities of Edison's employees, business partners, and subsidiaries. Other printed promotional material can be found in the National Phonograph Company Records, Edison Storage Battery Company Records, and other record groups in the Company Records Series.

In addition to publishing occasional brochures, most of Edison's companies issued serial publications. These included a succession of phonograph-related serials published by the National Phonograph Co. and the Edison Business Phonograph Co.— The Phonogram, The New Phonogram, Edison Phonograph Monthly, and Tips— as well as The Kinetogram, issued by the Edison Manufacturing Co., and The Edison Aggregate, published by the Edison Portland Cement Co. Sample issues of each publication have been selected with the exception of Tips and the Edison Phonograph Monthly, for which longer runs have been selected in order to include news, feature stories, and promotional material about Edison and his products.

Approximately 1 0 percent of the documents have been selected. The selected items are listed in the accompanying bibliography. The unselected material consists mainly of promotional brochures that provide routine information about the Edison product being advertised; most publications by non-Edison companies; and duplicate copies of selected items. In addition, film catalogs and phonograph record catalogs have generally not been selected. The film catalogs can be found in Thomas A. Edison Papers Microfilm Edition: Motion Picture Catalogs by American Producers and Distributors, 1894-1908. The information contained in the record catalogs is available in Allen Koenigsberg, Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912, 2nd ed. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: APM Press, 1 987) and similar publications.

The documents are arranged in three groups: (1) Printed Material— Edison Companies; (2) Printed Material — Non-Edison Companies; and (3) Serial Publications. Within each group, the items are organized alphabetically by company and then chronologically.

PRINTED MATERIAL — EDISON COMPANIES

Bates Manufacturing Company

"Bates & Edison Automatic Hand Numbering Machines." Form 230. 1904.

Edison Business Phonograph Company

"Souvenir of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Edison Business Phonograph." 1908.

[Reprint from Office Appliances. July lanfl ]

The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph " Form 1475. 1908.

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph." Form 1795. 1910.

Edison Manufacturing Company

"Battery Facts. . . for Gas Engine Manufacturers." 1899.

"Edison Primary Batteries and Battery Fan Outfits." Form 128. 1902.

"Edison Primary Batteries." Form 280. 1906.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 320. 1907.

"The Bulletin of Edison Films for the Week Ending February 20, 1909 " Form 418

1909.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 470. 1910.

Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.

"The Dunderland Iron-Ore Deposits and Mr. Thomas A. Edison's Process." Ca. 1902. Edison Portland Cement Company

"Works of the Edison Portland Cement Company, Stewartsville, New Jersey." 1902. "Edison Portland Cement Co., New Village, N.J." Ca. 1909.

Edison Storage Battery Company

"The Edison Storage Battery, 1903." 1904.

"A Few Suggestions for Central Station Managers, Containing Some Advertisements We Have Used and Are About To Use for the New Edison Storage Battery " Ca

1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery: Useful Information." Form 90. 1910.

"The Edison Storage Battery." Form 75. 1910.

"The 1910 Edison Storage Battery," by Walter Holland. 1910. [Bound with "A Test of the Edison Storage Battery," by the Electrical Testing Laboratories. Both papers were read at the annual meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, Thousand Islands, N.Y., September 6-8, 1910.]

National Phonograph Company

"Edison Phonographs, Phonograph Outfits, Phonograph Supplies." Form 49. 1899 "Parts of Phonographs." Form 270. 1901.

"Phonograph Accessories." Form 337. 1902.

"Edison Phonographs.” Form 335. 1902. [With attached "Important Supplement,"

"Jobbers Discount Sheet." Form 355J. 1902.

"Dealers Discount Sheet.” From 387D. 1902.

"Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Edison Home Phonograph." Form 476.

Ca. 1903. [Not selected: similar directions for the Gem, Standard, and Triumph models.]

"Just Airs: Souvenir of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Form 550. Ca. 1904.

"Edison Phonographs." Form 740. 1905.

"Edison Coin-Slot Phonographs." Form 910. 1906.

"How to Install the Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph." Ca. 1907. [From Scrapbook, Cat. 44,494.]

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Jobbers' Discounts." Form 1286. 1908.

"Edison Phonographs, Records, Parts, and Accessories: Dealers’ Discounts." Form 1286. 1908.

"Edison Amberol Records: What They Are and How to Play Them on Your Phonograph." Form 1415. Ca. 1908.

"Information Concerning and Directions for Putting the Combination Attachment on the Edison Home Phonograph." Form 468A. 1909. [Not selected: similar directions for the Gem, Standard, and Triumph models.]

"How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph." Form 1090. Ca. 1910.

"The Edison Phonograph: A Catalogue of Edison Phonographs, Records, Reproducers, Attachments and Accessories." Form 1780. 1910.

'"My South Polar Expedition' Vividly Told by Lieut. E. H. Shackleton on an Edison Amberol Record." Form 1801. 1910.

"Jobbers' and Dealers' Discounts and Net Prices on Edison Phonographs, Records, Accessories and Parts." 1910.

"Parts of Edison Phonographs, Reproducers, and Attachments." 1910.

Primary Printed Series Bates Manufacturing Company

"Bates & Edison Automatic Hand Numbering Machines." Form 230. 1904.

BATES & EDISON

Automatic Hand Numbering Machines

Bates and Edison Automatic Hand Numbering Machines

made at the Edison factories, Orange, by die Bates Manufacturing Company. This company has no connection with any con¬ cern of similar name.

The Bates machine receives its name from its patentee, who sold his rights to Mr. Edison. These machines rank as the leading devices of their kind on the market.

The Edison machine is put out to meet the demand fora lower priced numbering machine than the Bates. It is the superior of all low priced machines.

These machines are the only two hand numbering machines on the market with dial setting movements.

The Edison guarantee for quality and work¬ manship goes with both machines.

Every properly equipped business system should , have one or more of these machines; no system can be complete without one. There is no business or profession that cannot use one with advantage and profit. A few of their many uses are numbering checks, pay-rolls, orders, tickets, labels, vouchers, invoices, time cards, time books, prescriptions, etc., etc.,

Bates Manufacturing Co.

Bates Numbering Machines

Built to give perfect service for a lifetime, not to see how cheaply they can be sold

rpHESE machines are made in three styles: 1 The Bates Automatic Hand Numbering Machine, the Bates Platform Automatic Hand Numbering Machine, and the Bates Line Dating Machine.

Bates Numbering Machines are everywhere regarded as the standard for quality, both in construction and the character of work they perform. No similar device commands so high a price, and the fact that so many thousands are yearly sold is. the best possible evidence of the place accorded them in the business world. “Almost as good as the Bates” is the best claim ever made by competing devices.

Bates machines have these points of excel¬ lence: Their workmanship is of the highest grade; all wearing parts are made of steel; all working parts are entirely'onclOsed; they work noiselessly; are perfect in design; simple in operation; have an entirely automatic action; do absolutely accurate work; are compact and light in weight; have improved self-inking apparatus; there is no loss of space between the figures. They are guaranteed in every particular, and with proper care will last a lifetime and always do good work.

Bates Automatic Hand Numbering Machine

J

Bates Line Dating Machine

Net Price, $9.00

Styles of type.

Style J

JAN 1-1974

Style G Style K

AUG 25 1967 NOV 30 1980

Special Figura to Order

Includes bottle of inlc, extra pad, and stylo

rpHIS machine is similar in appearance, size, A and construction to the Bates Automatic Hand Numbering Machine. The work¬ manship is of the highest grade. Every wear¬ ing part is made of steel, including the dating wheels, and all parts receive the finest finish. The parts are interchangeable to the smallest screw. The machine weighs about sixteen ounces, making it light to handle, and yet is sufficiently solid and firm to ensure speed and ease in operation. It works with slight fric¬ tion and noiselessly.

Every wheel except the month wheel can be “thrown out” at will, so that the machine will register the month, day and year; the month and year; the month and day, or the month

The inking device is similar to that attached to the Bates Automatic Numbering Machine, by which the figures receive ink automatically from a thick felt pad which is practically in¬ destructible. The machine is equipped with a gauge plate, which enables the operator to print an impression on any given line.

Letter Wheels

■YTTE make to order machines having letter ’ * wheels, either preceding or following the figure wheels. '

The letters will be engraved to match the figures of the machine in which the letter wheels are to be mounted.

These letter wheels (which are substituted for figure wheels) will be furnished at a net price of $1.00 additional per letter wheel, and | will be engraved with any number of letters | to and including nine.

Primary Printed Series Edison Business Phonograph Company

"Souvenir of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Edison Business Phonograph." 1 908. [Reprint from Office Appliances July 1 908.]

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph." Form 1475. 1908.

"The Edison Commercial System Conducted with the Business Phonograph." Form 1795. 1910.

SOUVENIR OF THE

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

EDISON BUSIN ESS PHONOGRAPH

CONTAINING A STORY OF THE LIFE OF THE INVENTOR AND AN ARTICLE ON MAKING THE EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW INVENTION THE UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC MOTOR

{.Reprinted from Office Appliances for July 1 90S]

MAKING THE

EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH

By FRANK E . TUPPER

EASTERN MANAGER FOR OFFICE APPLIANCES

A Trip Through the Orange, N. J., Factory, Where the Marvelous Voice Writing Machines are Built

THE celebrated English literateur, Dean Swift, said that the man who , makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before deserves well of his kind. Had Swift Jiyed ' in the present generation, where it is not unusual to find men growing two blades where but one had been before, it is probable diat he would have .made better provision for acknowledgment due such a man as Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor, who has done more than any other man to advance the American nation in the commercial world. Here indeed is a man who has made' several blades grow where none had previouly existed.

That a man could start out-in life with scarcely any education, apart from that picked up at his home, and, thrown upon his own resources when f but a mere child, develop from newspaper vendor to publisher, to. telegraph operator and then to inventor of some of the most widely used products in the world, seems little short, of miraculous. Yet that,, in brief, is the story of Thomas Alva Edison, “the wizard of Menlo Park,” acknowl¬ edged the greatest living inventor and the man who originated and perfected the Edison' Business Phonograph.

Had a royalty been offered Edison for inven¬ tions of direct commercial value it is exceedingly improbable that we would have been favored with more in this line; With scarcely an exception his inventions have been of pronounced value to the ' business world, and his discovery of the business phonograph is by no means an exception. The perfected business phonograph is today one of the most essential and valuable aids of the business man.

Edison Himself

From the time he took out his first patent, for an electrically operated vote recorder, in 1869, ‘up to the present, Mr. Edison has given the major ' part of his time to the phonograph. With all his patents, and they include so many that at the age of 24 the United States Patent Commissioner re¬ ferred to him as “the young man who had kept the path to the patent office hot with his foot¬

steps,” the phonograph has always held a first place in his esteem. For this reason the an¬ nouncement some time ago that lie had perfected the business phonograph was received with more than ordinary interest.

With all his inventions, including telegraph im¬ provements, electrical engines, incandescent lamps, batteries and scores of things electrical, it is signifi¬ cant that the great genius maintains a financial and active interest in the phonograph, although he has disposed of his interest in most of the Edison companies.

While the intent of this article is to give readers of Office Appliances an insight into the making, development and uses of the Edison Business Phonograph, it would not be complete i without at least a brief reference to the career of that: wonderful creative mind whose genius made' the. rnachine possible.

Mr. Edison was born February 11, 1847; at Milan, Erie county, Ohio. Samuel Edison, his father, was of Dutch origin, and his mother, Nancy. Elliot, Scotch. His inventive ' instincts were, evidenced early in life, and' when, but IS years .of age he made some important improve¬ ments in telegraph apparatus. The rejection of his first patented invention, a vote recorder, already referred to, by the Massachusetts legislature, de¬ cided him to make it a rule to always investigate minutely the necessity of any particular invention ' before attempting its reduction to practice. This accounts for the noteworthy fact that Edison’s inventions have been of greater value to the com¬ mercial world than those of any other man.

Mr. Edison worked put many important patents before accumulating enough funds to experiment on a large scale. Finally, the sale of an invention for $40,000 established him with an experimenting ..shop in New York. His business thrived, and he moved to Newark, N. J., and took a shop in which he employed three hundred hands. Even with this, for those days, big staff Edison kept only pay roll accounts, preserving all bills and giving notes in payment usually. Often he would forget the jj note until it was protested, when he would hustle

for money and pay it. He held that this saved the luimbuggery of bookkeeping, which he didn’t understand, and was cheaper, as protest fees were only $1.50 each. Despite these business methods he had excellent credit.

In 1876 the Edison laboratories and works were moved to Menlo Park, N. J., and ten years later the present plant in West Orange was estab¬ lished. There is ample room for growth on the present site, and new buildings are being added from time to time. to keep pace with the demands of the increasing business. All the more recently erected buildings are of uniform size and built of concrete. The whole group of Edison buildings presents a picture of astounding industrial activity when it is considered that it is a direct result of the inventions and enterprise of one lone man.

Tlie great inventor’s enormous capacity for work is well known. He has worked sixty hours continuously without sleep and with little food, to find the cause of a machine’s refusal to work as he intended it should. His widely quoted “two per cent inspiration and ninety-eight per cent perspiration” doubtless came as a result of such experiences.

Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Edison has been the recipient of honors from leading scientific institutions all over the world, and gifts from crowned heads, statesmen and captains of industry, lie has always been of a retiring nature and dis¬ inclined to publicity. His laboratory work occupies most of his time, and when not there he is usually with his family at his beautiful home in Llewellyn Park, N. J. Of simple habits, he is a total abstainer and of late has become a vegetarian. While it was generally supposed that he retired from active work along commercial lines when he had completed three score years, he still spends many hours in his laboratory and lias announced his intention of perfecting molds from which

concrete houses can be built in a day or two at a price within the reach of the average working man.

Discovering the Principle

■ The discovery of the principle of the phono¬ graph Mr. Edison attributes to an accident. Pie was talking into the mouthpiece of one of his telephones when the voice vibration sent the fine steel point into his finger. This led him to the conclusion that by recording the actions of -the point and afterwards sending it over the same sur¬ face it would reproduce conversation. He experi¬ mented with a strip of telegraph paper and found that the point made an alphabet. He then reproduced words and by continued experiments perfected the phonograph as known today in every civilized country.

As early as 1878 Mr. Edison predicted among the future applications of the phonograph its use for letter writing and all kinds of dictation. Like most commercial successes, the business phono¬ graph has passed through many and varied experi¬ mental stages. The first Edison company to exploit phonographs was organized in 1878, and was capitalized at $600,000. The public was slow to appreciate the great commercial value of the machine, and it has taken thousands of dollars and reams of printed matter to place it where it is today, one of the most valued of office appliances and used in modern offices all over the world.

The making of the Edison Business Phono¬ graph as found in the modern office is as interest¬ ing a study in manufacturing as can be found in any commercial article. The plant in which the various parts are made and assembled into the completed “voice-writing” outfit occupies eleven five-story concrete buildings, exclusive of five buildings used as chemical laboratories for research work. The employes number some 4,000. While the Edison amusement phonographs, kinetoscopes (moving picture machines), Edison batteries and numbering machines are produced in the same plant, the making of the business machine is a most important feature’of the industry. Its parts, generally speaking, come from the same machinery and skilled hands as those of the amusement phonographs.

A View of the Plant

The electric power for the entire plant is pro¬ duced in one building, which contains engines and generators equipped to furnish some 3,000 horse-power. The casting department, where the base and other parts are cast, occupies another building. In the machinery department, where over five hundred machines of the most modern type do work that would not be possible by hand, the smaller parts of the phonographs are made. Here screws are turned out of a brass rod at one

operation. Holes are bored in hard steel that do not vary the smallest fraction of an inch on thousands of parts turned out. One large room is used for storing the immense quantity of brass and steel that goes into the machines. The top floor of the machinery building is devoted to a sort of job shop for the plant. The japanning, nickeling and polishing of parts is given careful attention in another room. The reproducers and recorders are assembled and tested in a department for that purpose. A large space is given over to the making of reproducing and recording points, the most vital part of the whole machine. These points are made of sapphire, and from the rough stone first given the men who make them to the finished points, they pass through twelve distinct operations, each one of which is done under a powerful microscope. Diamond dust is used for grinding the sapphires, and the utmost care has to be used in handling them.

When ready for assembling, the different parts of all types of phonographs made are all sent to a stock room, where they are tested. They are then handed out to the men who do the assembling. One large light room is given over to this. Before the machine is ready for the final testing it has passed through several hundred hands, the work of each man in the assembling departments being tested before it is passed along.

The assembling of the business phonograph is done in a separate room. After the final tests of the mechanism have been made it is equipped with an electric or spring motor and sent to the special stock room, from which it is shipped. In this room a complete stock of all parts of the busi¬ ness machine is held.

Making the Cylinders

The commercial cylinders are longer than those for the amusement machine, being made for eight minutes dictation. As they are blanks they are made by a different process. They are moulded in plain brass cylinders, and the composi¬

tion is poured in by hand. When taken out of the cylinder they are allowed to stand for two weeks before being touched. The bore is reamed, ends trimmed and then the record is shaved by a machine adjusted to take an exact amount off each blank. An inspection is made for flaws. It is then shaved ready for use and after a final inspec¬ tion boxed and sent to the stock room. Defective blanks are remoulded.

The cabinets in which phonographs are sold are made in a building which would be considered a good size for an exclusive woodworking factory. They are of standard finish quartered oak and made from raw materials. The bottom, sides and top are cut exact size and finished separately, then run through glue and put in moulds until set. When joined the pieces are smoothed off, dipped in filler, thoroughly shellacked and varnished and the words Edison Business Phonograph stamped on by a process of decalcomania. After a final coat of varnish, oiling and polishing the cabinets are adjusted with hinges and locks and are ready for market. All packing cases in which machines are boxed for shipment are also made in the cabinet building.

The entire Edison plant is in charge of P. Weber, general superintendent, and he is ably assisted by E. L. Aiken.

The Edison Dictation Pad.

Handling the Product

To handle the product of such an immense plant as that operated by the Edison Business Phonograph Co. it is manifest that there must be an executive and sale organization above the ordinary. One entire building at the factory is utilized for the administrative force and a fine five- story building at Fifth avenue and Eighth street, New York, is maintained for the selling organiza¬ tion.

Frank L. Dyer is president of the company, C. H. Wilson is general manager, Wm. Pelzer vice president, Alphonse Westee secretary and treasurer, F. K. Dolbeer is credit manager, and Nelson C. Durand is sales manager of the Edison Business Phonograph Company.

The Phonograph of Today

While we have referred to the first company selling the Edison phonograph as being organized in 1878 the perfected commercial machine as now being marketed has only been made since 1905. The machine put out up to that time had only a limited sale, as it did not appeal to the busy man of affairs as an actual time and money saver and practical improvement over the method of dic¬ tating to a stenographer.

To-day, with all objections of the old machine eliminated and the improvements embodied in the latest Edison Business Phonograph, it is doubtful if there is an office in the country where any con¬ siderable volume of correspondence is handled that the “voice writing” method will not be acknowledged as the most expeditious, convenient and economical obtainable. It must be used intelligently, however, and not expected to per¬ form impossible feats or to run indefinitely without oiling or any attention.

The Edison Business Phonograph of the present day, with its reproducer for instantly repeating any words desired by the dictator after an inter¬

ruption, its indicator showing length of letters dictated and index of corrections or instructions to the transcriber, stands out as one of the actual office necessities of successful business concerns.

When the operation of a new Edison Business Phonograph is explained it would seem superfluous to call attention to its advantages over the old method of dictating to a stenographer who has to write and transcribe the notes before presenting them in typewritten form. Experience has proven, however, that no matter how successful a thing may be or how obvious its improvement over that which it was designed to replace, a lot of explain¬ ing and demonstrating is required to make it “go.” The Edison Business Phonograph is no exception to the general rule.

With the latest Edison “voice writing” ma¬ chine a person can dictate at leisure or as fast as he can talk, and get equally good results. If interrupted while dictating, by a telephone mes¬ sage, caller or otherwise, all he need do is turn the

svvivel-plate to the producer, hear what he last said, and proceed. If he desires correction of an error, any addition made to the letter, extra carbon copies or anything not thought of when he started to dictate, lie can, by means of the dictation index slip supplied with Edison machines, indicate exactly what he wants and the operator can follow instructions without any loss of time. Moreover, a box is supplied for each cylinder and the index slip is numbered to correspond with that on the box. Corresponding scales on phonograph and index slips make it extremely easy and simple to make corrections instantly. By referring to the index slip the transcriber can at once ascertain the length of a letter and thus make allowance for proper spacing.

The Edison in Practice

The use of the Edison Business Phonograph in a busy office means an actual saving of fifty per cent in stenographers’ time. Only the time of the

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dictator is used in producing letters, and that of the transcriber can be devoted wholly to repro¬ ducing them in typewritten form. No time is wasted by the stenographer waiting for the dictator to answer the telephone, talk to a caller or any of the dozen and one things that come up to interrupt him while dictating. Many users of the phono¬ graph keep a machine at home and dictate to it at their leisure. This applies particularly to law¬ yers, judges, court stenographers and others who find it convenient to prepare manuscript at home. In this way many trips to the office can be saved, as the cylinders can be sent there by messenger boy. Oftentimes when not possible for a man to get to his office he can answer his correspondence at home by use of the phonograph. This means hundreds of dollars a year saved for lots of men.

The new model Edison Business Phonographs are electrically operated by the Universal motor for any type of alternating or direct current. The transcriber can start or stop the machine instantly by means of a foot-trip attached to the mechanism.

A slight pressure of the foot on this trip starts the machine, and it stops on the pressure being re¬ leased.

The introduction of the business phonograph was first the cause of considerable misgiving on the part of stenographers, who predicted reduced salaries or employment of mere typewriter oper¬ ators. With the new Edison machine there has been the reverse of this. They are getting higher salaries for more and better work, and in many cases are enjoying shorter hours. The company publishes a little booklet containing extracts from the letters of fifty young business men and women who have profited by use of the Edison Phono¬ graph in their work as stenographers. Points of advantage emphasized in these letters are: “In¬ creased speed,” “less strain on eyes,” “notes never cold,” “salary doubled,” “work regulated,” “not half as tired,” “improves the dictation,” “more accurate work,” “leaves employer free,” etc.

With stenographers it frequently happens that parts of sentences are misunderstood or the short¬ hand notes are incorrectly transcribed. This is impossible with the machine. Just what is dic¬ tated to it is reproduced. Nothing more. Noth¬ ing less.

The plan of selling Edison Business Phono¬ graphs through dealers has been in operation only a few months, but Nelson C. Durand, sales man¬ ager of the company, states that it has met with unqualified success and will be continued per¬ manently. Until the beginning of this year the machines were sold only through branch offices of the Edison Company, located in the principal cities. This was done in order to get the machines well established all over the country by ex¬ perienced men who were in direct touch with the head office and could look after repairs and diffi¬ culties always accompanying the introduction of a new machine. As soon as the machine had been thoroughly introduced in this way it was decided

it could be handled in a satisfactory way by office appliance dealers and other merchants. The branch offices were all closed, and the machines are now being distributed by dealers.

When a dealer undertakes the sale of the Edison Business Phonograph he is given every assistance by the company. If not too far removed from the routes of their traveling men a specially trained salesman is placed at his disposal until he gets the machine installed in a number of offices and work¬ ing smoothly.

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The Edison

Universal Electric Motor

By NELSON C. DURAND

SALES MANAGER

In 1878, thirty years ago, the first step was taken to introduce the Edison Business Phono¬ graph for the dictation and transcription of corres¬ pondence by a company formed in New York city.

The first Business Phonograph employed a sheet of tin foil, fastened around a cylinder, along which the recording stylus was made to pass by turning a crank by hand. It repre¬ sented only theembyro, the germ, a faint idea of the wonderful apparatus of the present day. To plan and build for its perfection and adoption by the business world, required the faith, concentration and compre¬ hension of the great mind that created it.

Edison and the trained assistants that his personality has attracted about him in these thirty years, have never wavered from their tasks, and all the great improvements that ap¬ pear to-day in this branch of the Phonograph industry must be at- • tributed to the perseverance and in¬ genuity of the Edison organization.

This article is written with the hope that the reader will appreciate the amazing progress of producing the present Business Phonograph with its human¬ like qualities that records dictation, is capable of instant reproduction and by means of the universal electric motor allows the mechanical amanuensis to be used under every electrical condition in a busi¬ ness office in which the incandescent light is used.

To obtain the proper comparison of the pro¬ gress of the Business Phonograph with other office appliances^ we must separate the mechanical from the electrical. The writer does not know of another office appliance like the Business Phono¬ graph that depends essentially for its operation upon an absolute, uniform and relative motion of its operating parts that must be supplied from the electric lighting circuits, conveniently found in the business man’s office. The nearest approach to these conditions is probably the electrically driven adding machine, but this does not carry with it the requirements of noiseless transmission and constant operation during every working hour.

Now for many years it has been an easy matter for the manufacturer to produce the mechanical device that “talks” perfectly with the ordinary types of electric motors, that are used by adding machine companies, and others as evidenced by the thousands of firms which to-day consider the voice writing system indispensable in tbe conduc¬ tion of their correspondence. The real problem has been the produc¬ tion of one single universal type of electric motor that would make the appliance interchangeable on alii/ electric lighting circuits, so that: it1'' would take its place as a standard machine that could be carried in stock by dealers in small quantities, and sold under every condition, the same as our more favored friend, the typewriter.

This gives us the opportunity to further explain to the layman that some cities employ a classof electrical current known as “direct current” ; some have “alternating current”; and the majority of cities employ electrical circuits of several varieties of these types.

Some business houses are in the direct current belt, and others in the alternating current belt. Some use direct current of their own and outside alternating current in emergencies. .

Each kind of current will run a motor, but each, up to the present time, required a different kind of motor.

The new Edison universal motor brought out for use with the Edison Business Phonograph will run equally well on all currents in use throughout the world.

Whether the business man uses the Phono-

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graph in his office or home, whether he uses it in travelling from point to point, whether he moves from one part of the city to another, or works days on one circuit, or after hours on another, the universal motor gives the same perfect service.

In view of these former conditions was it any

wonder that the Business Phonograph for world¬ wide use has waited upon the advent of the Edison universal motor?

The practical business man will recognize the present opportunity of a broad selling c-ampaign, which the new conditions make feasible. Only one type of machine need now be carried in stock by the dealer, and rich prospects are opened up in new territory which employs certain classes of alternating current for which no Phonograph motor had previously been devised. The former difficulty of instructing the selling agent in the technical operation of perhaps a dozen special motors has been removed, and the service to the customer in every territory will be improved.

A very important detail in the construction of the Edison universal motor consists in its economy in the amount of electrical current which it con¬ sumes. This is 50 % greater than other types of special motors, enabling the business houses to save a sufficient sum of money during the life time of the machine to pay for the original cost.

An examination of the Edison Business Phono¬ graph illustrated on these pages will give the reader a clear idea of its unique arrangement. Fig. 1 is a back view, showing the electrical con¬ nections by which the user attaches the Business Phonograph to any incandescent lamp socket by first removing the lamp, attaching the cord, and then replacing the lamp in the connection without interfering with the light which he needs for his work. On the back of the cabinet a scale will be noticed on which are marked several of the most prominent classes of electrical current used today.

The user adapts his machine to the local electrical conditions by simply moving the sliding pointer to the correct position which he must first ascertain from the proper authority.

When the Business Phonograph is set upon the platform pedestal these electrical changes for

the motor can be conveniently and quickly made without disturbing the arrangement in any way.

Fig- 2 gives a general front view of the top of the machine, which is raised in the illustra¬ tion to expose the universal electric motor. The motor is suspended from the Phonograph proper by springs, which with its construction makes it noiseless in its running. A screw through tile top plate provides for regulation in the speed or tone of the dictation. The motor case is of aluminum, making the machineaslightas possible.

But what, in addition to the motor, will appeal most strongly to the purchaser of the Edison Business Phonograph is the swivel arm, holding both a recorder and reproducer. Many small business offices and professional men with a limited correspondence can thus use one machine for both operations of dictating and transcribing by passing the machine, after the letter is dictated, to the stenographer, who simply turns to the repro¬ ducing tool to hear the record.

Thus the 30th anniversary of the Edison Busi¬ ness Phonograph is very fittingly celebrated with the introduction of this new universal type. The writer believes that this advancement in the pro¬ duction of a universal electric motor will remain a mark for other manufacturers to reach in every line, and though the design of the entire Phono¬ graph may be improved in detail it must remain the conception of the ideal mechanical amanuensis.

Electrical Testing Laboratories

GENERAL OFFICE AND LABORATORIES

Sept. 24th, 1908.

Edison Business Phonograph Company, Orange,

Gentlemen: -

We have tested the operation of the "Universal" eleotrio motor of Business Phonograph Ho.E48, under various oonditions, respecting alternating or direot current, voltage and frequenoy. The motor was delivered to us installed in a phonograph box and driving its mandrel. Before eaoh test the indioator on the adjusting devioe on the baok of the box was set

to the marked point corresponding to the conditions of operation The results of the aleotrioal and meohanioal measure¬ ments are given in the following table:

Current,

Direot Alternating, <

60-

40-

26-

Volts.

na.o

219 .0 110.0 217.6 110.0 109.0

Amperes.

0.199

0.210

0.220

0.222

0.218

0.211

Watts.

21.9

46.0

24.0

47.6

23.8

23.0

Time of 100 Rev. Seoonds

60.7

69.6

61.2

Under the widely varying conditions noted above no failure of the motor to operate satisfactorily was observed, fours very truly,

ELECTRICAL TESTING LABORATORIES ,

C.H.S./P.

Manager

The

Edison Commercial System

Business Phonograph

THE successful introduction of varied time-saving devices in the modern business office during the last five years encourages the office man¬ ager to recognize every appliance that promises greater convenience, economy or dispatch of the day’s work. The Edison Business Phonograph stands preeminently alone in these accomplishments. Where many devices are saving minutes and pennies for the business house, voice writing is saving days and dollars — not alone for one class of workers, but for the combined army of high salaried heads and routine assistants that arc employed in the world’s business correspondence.

Many have wondered that a world wide application of voice writing to correspondence has not been effected ■ more quickly, but an explanation of this is found in the development and extension of new systems of electric lighting into fully 90% of the territory of the world, for which no suitable electric phonograph motor was provided until the recent invention of the Edison Universal Motor (described on pages 4 and 5) which makes the Business Phonograph now as practical as the typewriter in all localities.

The Office Manager who reads the following pages should keep in mind

Universal Service for all Electric Power and Office Conditions

;raph , for every convenience has :ntal voicewriting machine to make

Primary Printed Series Edison Manufacturing Company

"Battery Facts. . . for Gas Engine Manufacturers." 1899.

"Edison Primary Batteries and Battery Fan Outfits." Form 128. 1902.

"Edison Primary Batteries." Form 280. 1906.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 320. 1907.

"The Bulletin of Edison Films for the Week Ending February 20, 1909." Form 418. 1909.

"Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes." Form 470. 1910.

BATTERY FACTS .

FOR GAS ... . .

ENGINE MANUFACTURERS

MARK

EDISON MFG. COMPANY

Factory: Orange, New Jersey Office and Salesroom: 135 Fifth Ave¬ nue, corner of 20th Street, New York

£berc arc $ix good reasons

WHY THE

Edison-Lalande Batteries

COMMEND THEMSELVES TO GAS ENGINE MANUFACTURERS .A J

W EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES develop a heavy, constant current-con- » tinuously — no attention necessary until the entire charge is exhausted

^ EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES do not waste while idle

3 EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES are simple in construction, easy to set up, easy to renew

4 EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES are absolutely free from all noxious fumes or chemical deposits. No creeping or crystalizalion over tops of jars

^ EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES will not freeze

6 For portable and marine gas engines, the EDISON-LALANDE BATTERIES are made with liquid-tight covers, and as the containing vessels of these types are made of enameled steel, they will stand any amount of hard usage

£b« largest

GAS AND GASOLINE ENGINE MANUFACTURERS IN THE COUNTRY ARE NOW USING

Edison-Lalande Batteries

jure Voji Ulitb Us?

READ SOME OF, OUR TESTIMONIALS

Description

The element employed in the various types of the EDISON- LALANDE BATTERIES described in this pamphlet are the following

ZINC, forming the negative pole

BLACK OXIDE OF COPPER, the positive pole

CAUSTIC POTASH SOLUTION

PARAFFINE OIL is poured on the top of the solution, thus avoiding both evaporation and creeping

Simplicity

The greatest attenllon has been given to simplifying the con¬ struction of these batteries, in order that their management may be easily accomplished and readily understood by the general public, unfamiliar with the use of batteries. Complete directions with illustrated diagrams, showing exactly how to set up and operate, accompany each battery

€di$on=Calamk Batteries

FOR STATIONARY ENGINES

TYPE “BB” CELL

Slot Machine and Small Gas Engine Model

Capacity, (00 Ampere Hours Price Complete Cell, with Porcelain Jar, $1.50 PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

1 ZinfTrMate.'icapaclty^t^iarge)1, C'k"SC'>’ . $ 1=5

i Can Caustic Potash (capacity, i charge), . ’ . . .15

Bottle Heavy Paraffine Oil (t charge) . .05

Total . $0.65

■ V).

fdisotiCalatule Batteries

^ FOR STATIONARY ENGINES

TYPE “Q” CELL

Small Gas Engine Model

She over all. 5 i". Jar only, sK*7in.

Capacity, 150 Ampere-Hours Price of Cell, Complete with Porcelain Jars, $2,00

PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

2 Zinc Plates (capacity, I charge), I2c. each, . .

i Copper Oxide Plate (capacity, i charge), y.

I Can, i charge Caustic Potash,

edi$on=Calaitde Batteries

FOR MARINE AND PORTABLE ENGINES.

TYPE “ZM CELL

Small Marine and Traction Gas Engine Model with Liquid-Tight Steel Enameled Jar

Sire over all, 4j£x6Jf i»- Jar only, 4**6 in.

Capacity, 100 Ampere-Hours Price, Complete, - - - $1.75

PRICE OF RENEWAL PARTS

few suggestions

FOR STATIONARY GAS ENGINE WORK use "R” rather than “ Q ” cells if you- have the space, for these reasons

The internal resistance of “ R " cells is less than “ Q ”i consequently the available current is greater. 5 •• R ” cells will replace 6 of “Q ’’ Also " R” cells have double the life of .“ Q" cells i consequently they last twice as long and cost only slightly more The " BB” cell is the smallest size suitable for stationary work, and has two-thirds the life of the Q.” 7 cells •• BB ” will replace 6 of “ Q" or 5 of “ R.”

IT IS CUSTOMARY TO USE about 4 or 5 “R" cells, or 5 or 6 " Q ” cells or 6 or 7“BB” cells for . stationary gas engine

FOR PORTABLE o»

GAS ENGINE WORK

use “ V ” rather than " Z ” cells for reasons mentioned above.

The life of V ” cells is SO per cent greater than Z ”

For portable engines use 5 or 6 "V" cells, or 6 to 8 "1" cells, The •• AA ” is same size as <• R,” and lasts twice as long as •• V.” • The internal resistance of " AA ” cells, is less than •• Vi” consequently the available current is greater, 5 “A” aa will replace 6 of“* V.” ' Use Edison SparK Coils with these batttfips, See page 2f,

Tt is poor economy to use Cheap Spark Coils. —

EDISON SPARK COIL FOR GAS ENGINE WORK

The Principal Points in Favor of the

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERY

FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE EDISON'LALANDE BATTERY

1st* High and constant available electromotive force.

2d. No local action, and therefore no loss of energy, while the cell is idle— the chemical action in cell is less than one per cent, per month.

3d* Extremely low internal resistance.

4th. Heavy current delivery, absolutely constant.

5th. Cheap materials, easily obtained.

6th. No attention or inspection required, until all the energy of its elements is exhausted.

7th. Convenience of. form, and freedom from noxious fumes or chemical deposits. No creeping.

8th. No polarization.

9th. Will not freeze at lowest temperature.

10th. The Edison Primary Battery is now made in nine different types, each one of which is especially designed for the kind of work named. (Sec page 15.)

Particular attention is directed to the Edison Primary cells , types Z, V and A A, illustrated on pages 2j, 24 and 2s, as these models have steel enameled Jars, with liquid-tight covers, and are especially suitable for use with portable gas engines, including marine and traction engines, also slot machines, etc,, etc. All these types are strongly and well made,' and will stand any amount .

0/ hard usage. They arc also well adapted for PORTABLE phonograph batteries, especially type V.

EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES

COPPER OXIDE PLATES

The amount of copper oxide used in each cell is so calculated that it will be entirely reduced to metallic copper when the zincs arc consumed and the solution is exhausted. *

TO ASCERTAIN IF THE OXIDE PLATES ARE EX¬ HAUSTED: Pick into the body of the oxide plates with a sharp pointed knife. If they are red throughout the entire mass, they are completely exhausted and need renewing. If, on the contrary, there is a layer of black in the interior of the plates, there is still some life left, tile amount being dependent entirely upon the thickness of the layer of black oxide still left.

IT IS VERY POOR ECONOMY TO USE EXHAUSTED OXIDE PLATES OVER AGAIN, as the battery will then polarize

TABLE SHOWING RELATION BETWEEN OLD AND NEW MODELS

ADVICE AS TO WHICH TYPE OF CELL TO USE ON VARIOUS LINES OF WORK

re have discontinued making Edison Primary cells, type “E,” “G,” and “P,” and have substituted newer models specified below, and ted on pages 17 to 25. We still keep on hand Renewal Parts for earlier types above referred to, so that customers having these cells •vice will not be inconvenienced.

Old type E is now represented by new type Q

“ G . RR

“ K . S

“ P " “ “ “ \V

lie only change in these cells is that the zincs in the new types ore 1 to a porcelain knob on tile cover, and consequently have a hole in eck for the bolt to pass through, instead of being made with a hook, early models. The oxide plates, caustic soda and oil, will do for the ind old types equally well.

FOLLOWING LIST WILL BE OF SERVICE TO DEALERS CARRYING A LINE OF OUR BATTERIES ON HAND c plates for Z and BB cells arc the same size

" E, K, Q, S, SS and V cells

G, P, RR, \V and AA “

:ic Sodn cans for Z and BB " E, Q and V

" G, RR, K, S, SS and AA

" P and W

:s of Oil for Z and BB

** E, K, Q, S and V

Each type of cell hits been constructed to fill special requirements of

the electrical profession. Thus we recommend their use as follows :

Type BB. for Slot Machines, Gas Engines and Annunciators.

Type Q. for Gas Engines, Small Fan Motors, Spark Coils, Large Annun¬ ciators, Burglar Alarms and Slot Machines.

Type RR. for Gas Engines, Railroad Crossing Signals, Fan Motors, Pho¬ nographs, District Telegraph, Fire Alarm Telegraph, Local and Main Line Batteries, Turntable Motors, Electro¬