Thomas Alva Edison, Letter to John Clark Van Duzer, page 2, 1868

Thomas Alva Edison, Letter to John Clark Van Duzer, page 2, 1868 with it for nearly 3 weeks being engaged on my automatic Printers, of which four 4 have been Already been made by Williams My system of "fac simile is entirely different from the systems of Bain Bakewell Casselli and Bronelli as the messages do not have to be prepared before Transmission, and does not require a syncroneous movement as in all others excepting Bronnelo who uses 5 wires = I use but one = . I hope to attain Writer Thomas Alva Edison Date written 1868-09-05 Paper x in x x in Pen Penmanship Style Collection Courtesy of American Philosophical Society The Thomas Edison Papers, Rutgers University [1] File name Edison Thomas Alva 1xx-001-001-001 Links to Compare to "rapid printing" in International Correspondence Schools' book copyright 1899 and 1906 [2]