Website: Thomas A. Edison Papers
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH.
Note that most of the documents are not themselves online (at least,
_I_ was unable to get the "Show Documents" feature to work on several
leterbooks which I wanted to examone ), but rather the index/finding
aid to them is available via the Web.
Nevertheless, a search via the site's search engine (read instructions,
starting at <http://edison.rutgers.edu/> , the homepage) turns up some
fascinating documents, including:
(search term: BRAIN): 'There is also one letter to a school principal
in which Edison discusses the function of "Broca cells" in the human
brain and theireffect on the human personality.' [General Letterbook
Series : Letterbook, LB-078 (1908-1909)]
"Edison's Prose Poem", linked from
<http://edison.rutgers.edu/docsamp.htm> , is also ... curious.
Russell Johnson
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:16:05 -0000
From: Iwan Morus <i.morus@qub.ac.uk>
Subject: FYI: Clippings in the Edison Papers
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From: Bob Rosenberg <rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu>
The Edison Papers has indexed nearly 13,000 clippings kept by
Edison and his staff in a series of scrapbooks and files (for example,
http://edison.rutgers.edu/sernote1.htm#mps). They can be
searched by date, and more than half are indexed by publication as well
(http://edison.rutgers.edu/cliptitl.htm). Many of the scrapbooks are
arranged by subject, and each scrapbook or folder can be
browsed from front to back. They cover far more than just Edison's
work, and because they are from a wide range of
publications--newspapers, technical journals, popular magazines,
non-American sources--they offer a multifaceted view of the times. I
recommend a look at them for anyone working in the period.
--Bob Rosenberg
* Robert Rosenberg *
Thomas A. Edison Papers * (732) 932 8511
Rutgers University * (732) 932 7554 [fax]
16 Seminary Place * rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1108 * http://edison.rutgers.edu
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