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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Clippings - Armat, Thomas., 03/01/1935-11/08/1959

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 34197
Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Thomas Armat Papers consist of a few letters to Thomas Armat and members of his family and 67 glass negatives with photos of documents and early motion picture devices. The correspondence includes 1 letter from Thomas Edison to Armat crediting Armat with the invention of the motion picture projector and 1 letter from Orville Wright to Armat regarding the Smithsonian Institution. Many of the photos are of legal documents for a case, Armat Motion Picture Company v. Edison Manufacturing...
Dates: 03/01/1935-11/08/1959