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    <title>Edison Electric Light Company records, 1879-1894</title>
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    <namePart>Edison Electric Light Company</namePart>
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  <abstract>Volume I (1879-1894) and volume II (1890-1891) contain verified copies of patents granted by the government of Canada to Thomas A. Edison and employees of his firm for improvements in incandescent lamps and methods of manufacture, fittings and fixtures, electric dynamo machines, electric railroads, and electrical generation and distribution systems; volume III (1885-1894) contains codes for insurance underwriters in the United States to create national standards for electrical construction and operation.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Parent company of all Edison electric light enterprises.  Established in 1878.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008127">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008127</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1931</namePart>
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    <topic>Electrical engineering</topic>
    <topic>Insurance requirements</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric generators</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric light fixtures</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric lighting, Incandescent</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric power systems</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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    <topic>Electric railroads</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric standards</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric utilities</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electric utilities</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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