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Notebook Series -- Notebooks by Other Experimenters -- General Experiment Books -- Other Books [not selected]:
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[The following note describes a series of notebooks that were not selected. For that reason, a "no Documents found" message will appear if the "List Documents" button at the bottom of the note is used. To see the records in the selected notebooks, use the "Which Series Notes?" button to enter the Series Notes.]

These thirteen notebooks were used during the years 1911-1920 by numerous experimenters, including Peter C. Christensen, William Walter Dinwiddie, Charles Edison, H. F. M. Graumann, Zachariah P. Halpin, William A. Hayes, Miller Reese Hutchison, Paul S. Laverty, Frederick P. Ott, Edwin Smith, Jr., Harold H. Smith, and Henry Trask. The books often contain notes by one main experimenter whose work covers numerous technologies. There are entries pertaining to primary and storage batteries including automobile batteries, the expansion of gas from batteries in submarines, and chemicals used in batteries and for other purposes. In addition, there are notes on Ediphones, disc record composition and manufacture, microphones and loud reproducers, diamond point roughing, the home projecting kinetoscope, light bulb design, insulation for wires, generators, alternating and direct current, and nickel ore processing.

N-Number Labels and Inscriptions on Front Cover
[additional information supplied by the editors appears in brackets]
Books Not Selected
Undated.7"Book #4 Parts numbers of Ediphones. Part numbers"
11-00-00.3"Experiments worth Trying P[aul] S L[averty]"
11-09-20[possibly a companion to 12-03-28]
12-00-00.6 [experiments on use of asphalt, probably in phonograph records; most entries are in German]
12-01-09[ripped] "Mr. F. L[illegible]yer's Taxicab. Type A-6 Battery" [all crossed out]
12-03-14"Brice and Hudson Generator (Primary Battery) March 14, 1912" [by Harold H. Smith]
12-03-28[alternating and direct current tests on 113-125 Volt "burners"]
15-10-25"Hydrogen" [by William Walter Dinwiddie]
16-01-12"Primary Battery" [by Edwin Smith, Jr.]
17-02-17[inscriptions inside the book] "Report on Microphone Experiment for Mr Edison"; "Diamond Print Roughing expts"; "loud reproducer experiments"
19-08-22[by Henry Trask; experiments on insulation for wires]
20-02-09"Nickel Ore Experiment"
20-08-18.1[by Charles Edison; notes on separation of nickel flake]


Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.