Re: Ray Cummings and Thomas Edison

[yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks for the information and leads.
I couldn't find anything with Cummings name on it in the archives.
I'll send an e-mail to the Merrill collection and see what they have to say.

Regards,
Yehoshua Paul

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 6:09 PM Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>
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