Re: Ray Cummings and Thomas Edison

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Fascinating. And there are archives of his papers, too:

https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/historyculture/research.htm

At least some of the papers are online, so it's possible Paul might be able
to find things written by Ray Cummings there:

http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital/

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:53 AM Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> Cummings edited the Edison Laboratories internal house organ. His first
> story was published the same year he left Edison, so it's likely that he
> took the job with Edison to pay his bills while he was writing fiction
> and trying to get it published.
>
> As for what inventions he wrote about, probably everything that came out
> of the Edison Laboratories during his time there, but as internal news
> articles rather than technical documents.
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