I still want a cement Edison cylinder phonograph !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edison_phonograph_1912.jpg
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From: "Andrew Baron" <a...@popyrus.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Electric pen
Hi John ~
A friend sent me this link this morning and I watched the video. This may
sound harsh (for me), but I found it to be typically inaccurate media-mill
fodder, with a catchy segment title to attract a big audience. Seems
they're also catering to the contingent that's hungry to pounce on an
Edison failure, perhaps?
In reality, wasn't the electric pen Edison's first successful
mass-produced product; i.e., mass produced by Edison's own shops and
marketed in America and Europe, keeping his first factory quite occupied
during its brief heyday? While we know that although the apparatus was
hard to maintain by untrained office staff, conceptually the idea was
successful enough to attract lumber man A. B. Dick, who with the much
simplified "Edison's Mimeograph" put himself on the map as a major office
machine and supplies manufacturer.
Certainly it is true that the motorized pen was the ideal basis for the
tattoo stylus (or whatever the right word might be).
A more accurate brief account than the tv.yahoo video:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/pen.htm
NOW FOR ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Edison's "worst invention" in terms of unsuccessful marketing, must have
been his Electric Vote Recorder, his first issued patent unless I got this
from a flawed history book. None were manufactured beyond the prototype.
Andrew Baron
Santa Fe
On Aug 16, 2013, at 8:48 PM, john robles wrote:
Here is a clip on what was called "Thomas Edison's Worst Invention". Of
course it is not well researched, but it is an interesting wawtch!
http://tv.yahoo.com/video/playlist/primetime/thomas-edisons-worst-invention-061926628.html
John Robles
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