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    <title>Thomas A. Edison papers, 1877-1927</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1847-1931</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letters of introduction, and telegrams concerning Edison's inventions such as the electric light, electric pen, graphophone, and phonograph; and sale of letters of patent to the Edison Electric Light Company.  Topics include injury caused by cigarettes and a visit from Mark Twain.  Correspondents include George H. Bliss, John Dean, and Werner von Siemens.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, positive and negative photocopies and typewritten transcripts produced from originals in the hands of Walter William Boyd. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1951.</note>
  <note>Inventor.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, with German.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bliss, George H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dean, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Siemens, Werner von</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1892</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Twain, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1910</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Edison Electric Light Company.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cigarettes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric lighting</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Inventions</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Patents</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pens</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Phonograph</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Inventors</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001323</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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