Inventor Name
Edison, Thomas Alva
Repository
Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027
212-854-5153
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/
Physical Description
132 items
Summary
Papers contain contracts, patent assignments, correspondence of Edison and others, relating to the development of the telegraph and the expanison of the telegraph network, and legal documents concerning his telegraphic patents. Other contracts concern the early work of Samuel F.B. Morse and other inventors and later telegraph companies.