Thomas Edison letter to Joseph B. Murdock

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Identifier: MSC31_Edison_1887

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Dates

Creation: 1887 Aug 23

Creator

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 (Person)

Summary

Letter from Thomas Edison to Joseph B. Murdock, Inspector of Ordnance in Charge, Newport Torpedo Station, offering to build a special dynamo to meet the Navy’s specific needs.

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Orange NJ Aug 23 87

J.B. Murdock

Dear Sir -

I am ready anytime to join you in devising the special dynamo + Navy Dynamo, and after we have thrashed them out will build both at my expense + loan them to you for experiment. My new Laboratory will be done + ready to build them by Nov 10th but in the meantime we should work the thing out = you might before you come on send me specifications of the ideal dynamo what it must do space allowable-weight allowable, etc, Make it difficult as I want to freeze out my competitors -

Yours

Edison