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  • Moses Gerrish Farmer Papers, ca. 1830-1893
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Moses Gerrish Farmer Papers, ca. 1830-1893

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Farmer, Moses Gerrish

Repository

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Special Collections
A1713 Young Research Library
P.O. Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
310-825-4988
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Physical Description

5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.) 1 oversize box

Summary

Moses Gerrish Farmer (1820-1893) was born in Boxcawen, New Hampshire. While he was a school principal in Dover, New Hampshire, he invented a machine to print paper window shades. He invented what became the first electric fire alarm system in the U.S., discovered means for duplex and quadruplex telegraph, invented an incandescent electric lamp and in 1866, he patented a self-exciting dynamo. The collection contains correspondence to and from Moses G. Farmer, account books, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia. The collection also contains legal and business papers regarding Farmer's patents and inventions, especially the electric railroad and fire alarm system.

Finding Aid

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt896nb4nb

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