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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2009
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008127
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
The records of the Edison Electric Light Company were given to the Library of Congress in 1995 by the Linda Hall Library of Kansas City, Missouri, which had acquired the material upon the dissolution of the Engineering Societies Library of New York. The collection was transferred to the Manuscript Division in 1997 by the Library's Geography and Map Division which retained the maps and charts that accompanied these records. Illustrated items were transferred by the Geography and Map Division to the Prints and Photographs Division.
The records of Edison Electric Light Company were arranged and described in 1997. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Related collections in the Manuscript Division include the Thomas A. Edison Papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Edison Electric Light Company is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The records of the Edison Electric Light Company are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Edison Electric Light Company Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The records of the Edison Electric Light Company consist of three bound volumes spanning the period 1879-1894. Two of the volumes contain verified copies of patents granted by the Canadian government to Thomas A. Edison and other employees of his New York firm. The patents relate to improvements in such areas as incandescent lamps and methods of manufacture, fittings and fixtures, electric dynamo machines, electric railroads, and systems of electrical generation and distribution. The third volume documents the codification of regional codes in the United States by insurance underwriters to create national standards for electrical construction and operation. Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company, the world's first central generating plant, in 1882.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX OV 1 | Oversize | ||||||||||||
| BOX OV 1 | Canadian patents | ||||||||||||
| BOX OV 1 | Vol. I, 1879-1894 | ||||||||||||
| BOX OV 2 | Vol. II, 1890-1891 | ||||||||||||
| BOX OV 3 | Codes for United States insurance underwriters, 1885-1894 | ||||||||||||
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