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Auction archive: Lot number 494

[Science, Medicine & Mathematics

Books & Manuscripts
30 Jan 2020
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 494

[Science, Medicine & Mathematics

Books & Manuscripts
30 Jan 2020
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] [Edison, Thomas A.] Document, signed (Menlo Park, New Jersey), September 15, 1877. 4 pp., on legal size paper. Agreement to commercially introduce Edison's telephones in Canada. Signed by Edison and countersigned by Charles Batchelor, Edison's co-inventor and principle partner, as witness, as well Franklin H. Badger, Canadian electrician chosen to lease Edison's telephones in Canada. Docketed on verso. Bound with: Memorandum extended from above document, further delineating Badger's role in marketing Edison's telephone in Canada. 2 pp., on legal size paper. Signed by Badger and witness E.S. Cathels. Also bound with: (Menlo Park, New Jersey and Montreal, Canada), October 14 and December 2, 1878. 2 pp., on legal size paper. Agreement terminating the previous two agreements. Signed by Edison, J.B. Reach as witness, as well as Badger and Charles Bourne, Treasurer of the Montreal Telegraph Company. The first introduction of the telephone on a commerical basis into Canada.

Auction archive: Lot number 494
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jan 2020
Auction house:
Freeman's
1600 W Girard Avenue, Philadelphia
Beschreibung:

[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] [Edison, Thomas A.] Document, signed (Menlo Park, New Jersey), September 15, 1877. 4 pp., on legal size paper. Agreement to commercially introduce Edison's telephones in Canada. Signed by Edison and countersigned by Charles Batchelor, Edison's co-inventor and principle partner, as witness, as well Franklin H. Badger, Canadian electrician chosen to lease Edison's telephones in Canada. Docketed on verso. Bound with: Memorandum extended from above document, further delineating Badger's role in marketing Edison's telephone in Canada. 2 pp., on legal size paper. Signed by Badger and witness E.S. Cathels. Also bound with: (Menlo Park, New Jersey and Montreal, Canada), October 14 and December 2, 1878. 2 pp., on legal size paper. Agreement terminating the previous two agreements. Signed by Edison, J.B. Reach as witness, as well as Badger and Charles Bourne, Treasurer of the Montreal Telegraph Company. The first introduction of the telephone on a commerical basis into Canada.

Auction archive: Lot number 494
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jan 2020
Auction house:
Freeman's
1600 W Girard Avenue, Philadelphia
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