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Happy Birthday,, Tom Edison, on this day Feb 11th also now called the Inventors Day.

Anil

Happy Birthday to the "Old Man"!

I celebrated by playing Edison records on Edison machines .... but that's every other day, too.

I played some Edison Diamond Discs and worked with the wax a bit.

Here is a watch fob from his 70th birthday celebration dinner on Feb. 11, 1917. They were only given to the Orange, NJ employees who attended.

I played a Victor record on my 8-9 in his honour.

I think Edison used his Victrola quite often, to listen to Victor records compare his records with the competition, The music room had of course a Diamond Disc Machine, a Victrola and Grafanola. And from what I Understand is that Victor purchased brown wax blanks from Edison to master Victor Records. I remember a 1906 court case where John C English is testifying that the blanks he purchased recently " c 1906" were the same as Edison blanks he had used in the 1890s. And I am like why would a Victor employee be still purchasing Edison brown wax cylinders for? Answer, to melt down, to make master discs to cut records from.

pictureroll wrote:I played a Victor record on my 8-9 in his honour.

You wish you took the wax out of your ears, and realized how superior Victor was.