7/1/1911 Edison Co releases Amberol cylinder recording “Down in the Old Meadowlane,” a ballad by Frank X. Doyle
7/2/1911 NY Times reports TAE prediction that 73% of world’s urban delivery trucks will be powered by storage battery
7/2/1911 TAE says one day we will all wear clothes made of mineral wool
7/3/1911 Townsend Bros Dept Store, Nyack, NY asks TAE about his electric delivery wagon
7/3/1911 TAE says his delivery wagon is on daily test, will not sell until they run 5000 miles, cost $750 each
7/4/1911 TAE denies reports he is building an electric smelter in Canada
7/5/1911 Paris Automobile Club elects TAE honorary member
7/6/1911 Enoch Clark of Dover, Del asks TAE about his experiments on new auto tire. TAE says experiments not a success, so far
7/7/1911 Edison signs indefinite recording contract with popular Vaudeville singer Lottie Gilson for $1000 per year
7/8/1911 William Clark of Brookline, Mass asks braille can be printed on TAE’s proposed nickel sheets for books
7/9/1911 TAE says if someone can make a good windmill he has the storage battery to power it
7/10/1911 Theodore, Thomas and Mina’s youngest son, celebrates his 13th birthday
7/11/1911 TAE resigns from the Engineer’s Club of Philadelphia
7/11/1911 TAE tells German friend S. Bergmann he will visit Europe in August, says “am almost played out and want to get into the mountains”
7/12/1911 TAE donates $25 towards construction of recreation pier in Fort Myers
7/13/1911 TAE says he’s developing miner’s lamp with his new battery and expects to have it ready in three months
7/13/1911 TAE tells cashier of Union National Bank in Newark he only smokes two or three cigars a day
7/14/1911 K.L. Winder of Paterson, NJ sends TAE his idea for combination saw-protractor-straight edge-compass with pencil & oil can
7/14/1911 Georgia state geologist tells TAE Bulletin “Drainage Reclamation in Ga” off the press, will send copy for 8 cents
7/15/1911 TAE sends telegram to daughter Marion in Germany: Leaving August 2nd for Europe
7/16/1911 French electrician Eugene Berliouse sends TAE a drawing of his perpetual motion machine
7/17/1911 Clinton Graham of NYC tells TAE his idea of using phonographs in RR cars to announce station stops. TAE says railroads won’t buy
7/19/1911 Disabled Civil War vet L.D. Farra has an idea for improved telegraph and asks for TAE’s help
7/20/1911 Mrs. Edison nervously leaves England for Holland “none of us know a word of Dutch and they speak nothing else”
7/21/1911 Chicago builder Henry Ullrich plans to build many Edison cement houses, asks TAE for details
7/22/1911 former employee W.K.L. Dickson invites TAE to visit his London lab during Edison’s upcoming European trip. TAE doesn’t answer
7/23/1911 Mrs. Edison writes TAE from the Hague: “our trip has been wonderful and we are trying to see the whole of Holland”
7/24/1911 TAE signs application for US patent 1,016,875 for electroplating apparatus
7/25/1911 TAE says the iron moulds for his new cement house are not yet finished
7/25/1911 Edison Co signs contract with McClure’s Magazine granting right to produce films based on published stories
7/26/1911 Mrs. Edison’s brother, Robert Miller, dies in Puerto Rico while Mrs. Edison is traveling in Europe
7/26/1911 TAE’s secretary says cement house moulds are 60% finished
7/26/1911 TAE says he is developing cheap & effective small electric delivery wagon to replace one horse delivery wagons
7/27/1911 16 year old Herbert Barrs of Christchurch, New Zealand writes TAE about his idea for a new steam turbine
7/28/1911 Edith Edison, TAE’s niece marries East Orange, NJ banker Frank Potter in TAE’s Milan, Ohio birthplace
7/29/1911 Labor World, official newspaper of Amer Federation of Labor, asks TAE to write article on labor mediation
7/30/1911 glass painter Emil Kronkopff of Karlsruhl, Germany sends TAE his dea for fireproof paper and ink
7/31/1911 R.G. Dun Co submits financial statement for TAE, Inc. Company worth $10,329,036.09