Object Details
- Author
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931
- lithographer
- Peters, N (Norris)
- former owner
- Hammer, William Joseph 1858-1934 DSI
- inscriber
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 DSI
- Author
- United States Patent Office
- Subject
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Bound collection (2 v.) of patents issued to Edison by the U.S. Patent Office for various technological improvements and inventions.
- Vol. 1 contains 152 patents, dating from June 1, 1869 (no. 90,646, for improvement in electrographic vote-recorder), to Dec. 23, 1879 (no. 222,881, for improvement in magneto-electric machines). The patents are in chronological and numerical order, with the exception of two from Apr. 22, 1879 (nos. 214,636-214,637) which are bound at the end of the volume. The patents in v. 1 are mostly duplicated in v. 2, although some are re-issues or have slightly different texts.
- Vol. 2 contains 383 patents, dating from June 1, 1869 (no. 90,646, for improvement in electrographic vote-recorder) to May 20, 1884 (no. 298,956, for mode of operating dynamo-electric machines), arranged in chronological and numerical order.
- The patent drawings were photo-lithographed by N. Peters, Washington, D.C.
- Patent 282,287 (July 31, 1883) in v. 2 includes a printed errata slip.
- Also available online.
- SCDIRB copy of v. 1 (39088009797978) has a sheet of Paris hotel stationery with ms. pencil notes (by Hammer?), concerning patents for phonographs, tipped in on the verso of the drawing for patent no. 210,767 (Dec. 10, 1878).
- SCDIRB copy of v. 1 has stamp: From the William J. Hammer collection.
- SCDIRB copy of v. 1 has later black buckram portfolio with gilt-lettered spine; some leaves have been "silked" or otherwise repaired with tape.
- SCDIRB copy of v. 2 (39088009798059) has inscription on front free endpaper: W.J. Hammer from Thomas A Edison, N[ew] York Feb[ruar]y 19th 1885; with Hammer's ink stamps: William J. Hammer; From the William J. Hammer Scientific Collection.
- SCDIRB copy of v. 2 has later green buckram binding; approximately 60 leaves of blank lined paper have been inserted at the front of the volume.
- Elecresource
- 1869
- 1869-1884
- Call number
- T223.B2 E23 1869
- Type
- Catalogs
- Patents
- Physical description
- 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm
- Place
- United States
- Title
- United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, 1869-79 DSI
- United States patents of Thomas Alva Edison, June 1st, 1869 to May 20th, 1884 DSI
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Patents--Specifications
- Inventions
- Patents
- Telegraph
- Electric machinery
- Electric apparatus and appliances
- Phonograph
- Telephone
- Motors
- Record ID
- siris_sil_691276
