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EDISON, THOMAS ALVA. 1847-1931. Check Signed ("Thos. A. Edison"),
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EDISON, THOMAS ALVA. 1847-1931.
Check Signed ("Thos. A. Edison"), as President of the Edison Botanic Research Corporation, made out to W.H. Hand in the amount of $80.00, drawn on the Savings Investment & Trust Company of East Orange, NJ, date in blue ink stamp June 19, 1929. Countersigned by J. Miller, Treasurer. Perforated "Paid" stamp, ink processing stamps on verso, with some ink bleeding through to recto.
Edison Botanic Research Company was founded in 1927 as a collaboration between Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, to find a domestic source for organic rubber. The three friends each contributed $25,000 to build a botanical center in Fort Myers, Florida, to search for a plant that could produce natural latex in the case of a disruption of the supply from tropical regions, which had been a concern during World War I. Although Edison discovered that goldenrod was a viable alternative, the research was abandoned in favor of synthetic rubber by the outbreak of World War II;
WITH: Gray, Elisha. A T.L.S., 1p, 4to , Highland Park, IL, February 6th 1894, to a Professor Davies asking to set up a date for a meeting, matted.
Edison Botanic Research Company was founded in 1927 as a collaboration between Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, to find a domestic source for organic rubber. The three friends each contributed $25,000 to build a botanical center in Fort Myers, Florida, to search for a plant that could produce natural latex in the case of a disruption of the supply from tropical regions, which had been a concern during World War I. Although Edison discovered that goldenrod was a viable alternative, the research was abandoned in favor of synthetic rubber by the outbreak of World War II;
WITH: Gray, Elisha. A T.L.S., 1p, 4to , Highland Park, IL, February 6th 1894, to a Professor Davies asking to set up a date for a meeting, matted.

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