Transcontinental telephone address to Thomas A. Edison

About this film

Transcontinental telephone address to Thomas A. Edison Spoken by: Miller Reese Hutchinson, Chief Engineer, Engineering Department, Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated. Recording date: c. October 17, 1915 Record format: Edison Diamond Disc celluloid sub-master (unissued) Matrix number: 4199-C-2 (2) NPS object catalog number: EDIS 584 ** Historical note: On October 21, 1915, a group of Thomas Edison's friends and business associates played this recording in the library of the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey and transmitted it to Edison at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California via the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's newly completed transcontinental telephone line.

Directors & creators

Miller Reese Hutchinson

Subjects

Oldtime

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