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Guide to the William J. Hammer Collection

182 results in NMAH.AC.0069 for "Lamps"

Series 1: William J. Hammer Papers

1851-1957

1.4: Writings by Hammer

1851-1931

Autobiography of Hammer prepared for the Edison Pioneers; Correspondence: 1925, with Henry Schroeder and John W. Howell regarding their book,

The History of the Incandescent Lamp

; Hammer's biographical notes

16

1

Diagrams, Drawings, Sketches, and Graphs:

Photograph showing 3 h.p. motor & 3 h.p. generator

17

3

Acetylene Flame Apparatus, Riohmer Selenium Cell, Relays and Battery for Operating Electric Lamp, Bell, Motor and Horn,

Scientific American Supplement

May 30, 1903

17

4

Hammer's notebooks:

Tunqstate of Calcium Lamp

Radium, Polonium and Actinium

1902

18

2

Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps

, Journal of the Franklin Institute

1906

18

3

The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps

1913

18

4

Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps

undated

18

5

1.5: Secondary Writings About Hammer

1880-1913

Lamp detacher and attacher;

Nov. 16, 1883

19

2

Articles on Hammer's incandescent lamp prepared by Earl N. Fridley for his New York Sunday Tribune but never used

19

4

Identified sketches, drawings, tracings, and diagrams of incandescent electric lamps

1880

19

6

Vacuum apparatus for extracting the air from Edison's Electric lamps at Edison's laboratory

July 8, 1880

19

6

First Steam-tight globe for incandescent lamp

1880 or 1881

19

6

Cheap and simple form of Edison lamps

19

6

1.7: Patent Materials

1883-1930

Hammer's Patent & Advertising Card: Device for Attaching & Detaching Electric Lamps #363,332

May 17, 1887

21

3

Decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the Edison Incandescent Lamp patent,

Extra the Electrical Engineer

Oct. 4, 1892

21

18

Series 2: Edisonia

1847-1960

2.2: Edison Effect - Etheric Force And Related Data

1879-1930

Curve sheet made by Hammer Feb. 26, 1881, used in his test with Edison's incandescent electric lamps

Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers

, Vol. 14 no. 2

February, 1897

24

3

Manuscripts-- Edison Effect

24

5

2.3: Edison Electric Light Company: Lamps, Distribution

1866-1902

Data relative to the Edison Central Stations for incandescent electric lighting

25

1

Hammer's references to articles relating to incandescent lamps

25

1

Hammer, "Edison's Tungstate of Calcium Lamp"

Jan. 3. 1902

25

1

Data relative to the incandescent lamp

25

1

License agreement

25

1

Notes on the meter

25

1

Edison's distribution systems

25

1

List of central illuminating companies in the United States

June 1887

25

1

Estimate of cost and annual operating expenses of small central stations for the system of electric lighting

25

1

Prices charged to Edison licensee companies

25

1

Advertising pamphlet on Edison Electric Light Company

25

1

Exhibits to legal cases regarding patents

25

2

Exhibits to legal cases regarding patents

25

3

List of Edison Central Station Illuminating Companies in the United States

April 22, 1866

25

3

Other lists (tendered as exhibits)

25

3

Saving in copper by the Edison 'Feeder System" and Edison "Three wire System"

25

3

Correspondence relating to the Edison Electric Light Company

1895

25

3

Trust Agreement between the Farmers Loan and Trust Company with Edison General Electric Company and Edward H. Johnson and Frank J. Sprague

25

3

Miscellaneous Notes

25

3

William J. Hammer,

Electric Lighting by Incandescence

25

3

Notes re: electric light

April 1879

25

4

Edison lamp test results from Jehl in Vienna and Budapest to Hammer

undated

25

5

Miscellaneous Machinery Blue prints

25

6

News clippings: Edison's light and lighting system

25

7

Notes from Edison notebook (in Edison's writing)

25

8

2.4: General Inspection Reports On, And Suggestions To The Officers And Directors Of The Edison Central Stations

May 1885-April 1886 and undated

1885-1886

Edison Lamp Co.

26

16

2.5: Menlo Park; Electric Train; Incandescence

1878-1960

1893-1925

1893: To Messrs. Pyer and Seeley from Francis Upton regarding lamps at Menlo Park and Goegel (lamp # 4)

1893

27

1

Data on Edison Lamps made at Menlo Park

27

1

Official envelope of the Edison Electric Lamp Co., Menlo Park, N.J.

27

2

Articles and writings on electric inventions

1922

A short account of the first underground system used for incandescent lamps

27

3

Description of the Edison Lamp, The Edison Electric Light Company

27

3

Lamps and electric wires

1884-1960

27

4

General Electric Co.,

Train Lighting with G. E. Tungsten and Tantalum Lamps

undated

27

4

The Shelby Electric-Company,

How to Sell Lamps

1898

27

4

General Electric Co., Kain Lamp Sales Offices, Harrison,N.J., The Edison Lamps

August, 1906

27

4

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York,

The Edison Socket Case: Text of opinion of Judge Lac and Injunction Order, in the case of Edison Electric Light Company against William J. Newton

Oct. 13, 1894

27

4

Die Wechsel and Drehstromgeneratoven

1960

27

4

U.S. Court of Appeals, Northern District of New York,

The Edison company Socket Case

Full text of the Opinion of the U. S. Circuit Court

Feb. 14, 1895

27

4

Several loose pages of a pamphlet on electric wires

27

4

General Electric Co., Harrison, N.J.,

Edison Lamps Standard of the World

, pamphlet no. 3366

undated

27

4

General Electric Co.Harrison, N.J.,

Price List No. 5191, G. E. Tungsten Lamps for Battery Service, Low Volt and Miniature

1908

27

4

General Electric Co.,. Harrison, N.J.,

Price List No. 5131, Edison Miniature Incandescent

Sept. 22, 1904

27

4

The Edison United Manufacturing Co., N.Y.,

Wiring Tables for the use of Edison

April, 1888

27

4

Clippings and loose papers

27

4

Clippings of the

, Oct. 6, 1884; the

, March 21, 1924; unidentified news clippings

1884, 1924

27

4

Copy of Horoscope for Feb. 11

undated

27

4

Blue Print diagram of The Standard New Construction Third Ave. Railway, New York

27

4

'Edison Standard Gage; Table of Dimensions, Weight and Resistance of Pure Copper Wires"

27

4

Several loose prints

27

4

Writings about the light bulb in Menlo Park

1881-1934

The Count du Moncel, "Incandescent Electric Lamps at the International Exhibition of Electricity,"

Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine

Dec. 1881

27

5

J.J. Marshall, "The Development of the Manufacture of the Edison Incandescent Lamp,"March 16, 1905.

1881-1905

27

5

Booklets containing electrical notes

1881-1930

The Manufacture of the

Lamps by Henry Schroeder

27

7

Edison Incandescent Lamps for Isolated Plants

27

7

2.7: Speeches, Testimonials, Invitations

1893-1938

Speeches and Comments

1893-1938

John White Howell, "Lamp Developments in America,"

Electrical World

Feb. 21, 1925

29

5

The History of an Art, Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps

1904

29

5

The History of an Art,' Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps as set up in the Engineering Societies' Building, New York City

1913

29

5

Material relative to incandescent lamps

1904-1913

Names of Lamps in the William J. Hammer Collection of incandescent electric lamps

1913

29

7

Great Electricians

1909

29

7

The William J. Hammer Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps

, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia

1906

29

7

The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps

, reprint from the transactions of the New York Electrical Society

1913

29

7

List of Edison's lamps

29

7

Announcement regarding electric exhibition at the 10th Anniversary of the Commercial Establishment of Electric Lighting two pamphlets titled

The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Lamps

, being extracts from the Report of the Commission on " Science and Arts" of the "Elliot-Cresson" Gold Medal to Hammer

Apr. 1906

29

7

Extracts from letters relative to Hammer's Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps

29

7

Thomas A. Edison, "The Beginning of the Incandescent Lamp,"

Scientific American Supplement

May 14, 1904

29

7

Miscellaneous notes and scraps

29

8

2.8: General Reference Articles On Edison

undated

1890-1936

The William J. Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps, extract from the report of the Commission on "Science and Arts" of the Franklin Institute in making the award of the "Elliot-Cresson" Gold Medal to Hammer

Apr. 1906

30

7

General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y.,

Edison Mazda Lamps for Standard Electric Railway Service

, bulletin No. 4947A

Mar. 1913

30

7

2.9: Edison Storage Battery Data; Edison Electric Illuminating Company

1884-1927

Edison Storage Battery Co.,

The Edison Electric Safety Mine Lamp

undated

31

1

Edison Storage Battery Co.,

The Edison Electric Safety Mine Lamp

, Bulletin 300, Model E, Bulletin 300

undated

31

1

2.11: Early Companies; Material Regarding Legal Proceedings; Misc. Script; 1898 Map of Borough of Brooklyn

1891-1922

General Electric Formation

1898-1916

Pamphlets regarding illuminating companies; the Edison United Manufacturing Co.; and "The Most Notable Step in Years'." by Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co., Harrison, N.J.

33

4

2.12: Edison's Patents

1881-1915

Depositions of Hammer and Peter H. Vander Weyde in the case Edison Electric Light Co. vs. Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co.

34

2

2.13: Litigation Of Edison Patents

1882-1915

U.S. Circuit Court (Eastern District of Missouri). Edison Electric Lighting Co. vs. Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co. et al:

Defendants' Affidavits in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction

35

Complete Set, Complainant Geobel Affidavits

35

Circuit Court of the U.S. (Southern District of New York)

36

The Edison Electric Light Co. vs. The United States Electric Lighting Company (Defendant)

36

In Equity, #3445

June 11, 1886; Jan. 20, 1890; and April 7, 1890

36

Before U.S. Patent office Cazin, F.M.F. vs. Welsback Light Co.

1899

37

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