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The eighty-two notebooks in this group cover the period 1911-1926. They were used by Charles T. Dally, Frank Detlef, Jr., William Walter Dinwiddie, Archie D. Hoffman, and Sherwood T. (Sam) Moore, and other Edison employees. Occasional notations by, or instructions from, Edison indicate his attention to their work. The experiments in these books pertain to the development and improvement of cylinder and disc phonograph records. Fourteen books with indications of oversight or involvement by Edison have been selected in whole or in part.
The notebooks are arranged in eleven subgroups:
