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<td width="200" style="font-size:20pt;"><h1>Year</h1></td>
<td width="200" style="font-size:20pt;"><h1>Date</h1></td>
<td width="200" style="font-size:20pt;"><h1>Event</h1></td>
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<td rowspan="35"><h1>1883</h1></td>
<td>April 4-5</td>
<td>Travels to Albany and electrical exhibition in Cornwall,Ontario
</td>
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<tr>
<td>April 16</td>
<td>Conducts Porfirio Díaz and his wife on a tour of Edison lighting plants and manufacturing shops in New York City</td>
</tr>
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<td>April 20</td>
<td>Agrees in principle to combine electric railroad patents with those of Stephen Field in a new company</td>
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<td>May 3</td>
<td>Gives Samuel Insull power of attorney to sign contracts and conduct all business related to his Central Station Construction Department</td>
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<td>May 3-5</td>
<td>Travels to Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and signs contract to construct first village plant central station in Sunbury, Pennsylvania</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May 15-16</td>
<td>Requests several agents for Edison electric light to provide information regarding the use of the Maxim light in their region</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May 18</td>
<td>Appoints William Rich as superintendent of construction for central station plants</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June 1</td>
<td>Discharges all domestic servants at family home in New York City</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June 1</td>
<td>Hires Frank Sprague</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June 18-19</td>
<td>ravels to Chicago for the Electric Railway Exhibition</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spring</td>
<td>Designs short-core dynamo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June 28</td>
<td>Comitato per Applicazioni Dell Elettricità Edison inaugu- rates central station service in Milan, Italy</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June</td>
<td>Spends substantial but indeterminate period supervising construction of first three-wire village plant in Sunbury, Pennsylvania</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 3-12</td>
<td>Supervises completion and 4 July start of Sunbury station</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 17</td>
<td>Places Charles Campbell in charge of Engineering Depart- ment making estimates for central stations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July 23</td>
<td>Donates to telegraphers’ strike relief fund</td>
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<td>July 24</td>
<td>Gives conditional approval to merger of his British electric light interests with those of Joseph Swan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 1</td>
<td>New York Evening Post publishes interview in which Edison pledges to become “simply a business man for a year.”</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 4-13</td>
<td>Mary Edison, daughter Marion, and sister Alice vacation in Long Beach, Long Island, with Edison and Alice’s husband, William Holzer, joining them for two days</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 18</td>
<td>Fires superintendent Charles Dean and bookkeeper Charles Rocap from Edison Machine Works</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 18-26</td>
<td>Supervises completion and 20 September start of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, central station</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Summer</td>
<td>Adopts Frank Sprague’s mathematical method of determining conductors for central stations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 29</td>
<td>Travels to Fall River and Brockton, Massachusetts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 1</td>
<td>Inaugurates Brockton central station</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 1</td>
<td>Edison family moves to Clarendon Hotel, New York.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 2</td>
<td>Final board approval for organization of Edison and Swan United Electric Light Co., Ltd., retroactive to 30 June 1883</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 6</td>
<td>Returns to New York</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 8</td>
<td>U.S. Commissioner of Patents rules in favor of Sawyer-Man patent on carbon loop filament</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 13</td>
<td>Devises new voltage regulator based on “Edison Effect”
lamp
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>November 13</td>
<td>Retains attorney John Tomlinson for lamp patent infringe- ment lawsuits</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>November 14</td>
<td>Testifies as plaintiff ’s witness in lawsuit against overhead electric lines in New York City</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>December 11</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Repays more than $35,000 borrowed from Drexel, Morgan & Co</li>
<li>Sends Samuel Insull to Great Britain and continental Europe</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>December 17-18</td>
<td>Travels to Fall River, Massachusetts, to inaugurate central
station there
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>December 24</td>
<td>Begins experimenting with gelatinous materials for lamp
filaments
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>December </td>
<td>Makes preliminary efforts to license and sell duplicating ink</td>
</tr><tr>
<td rowspan="49"><h1>1884</h1></td>
<td>January 5</td>
<td>Visits Henry Villard to console him after his financial
collapse
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>January 24</td>
<td>German patent office rules all carbon-filament incandescent lamps subject to Edison’s patent</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>January 27</td>
<td>Samuel Insull returns</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>January 29</td>
<td>Anthony Thomas proposes to Edison and other Edison
Electric directors that all the Edison lighting companies and shops be reorganized into a single company
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>Janauary</td>
<td>Directs research on electrodeposition of metallic films.
Incorporates Edison Lamp Co. and Edison Machine Works
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>February 1</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Appoints Willis Stewart as his electric lighting agent in Chile.</li>
<li>Charles Clarke officially resigns as chief engineer of Edison Electric Light Co.</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>February 5</td>
<td>Drafts contract for central station engineers</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>February 10</td>
<td>Leaves on Florida vacation with Mary Edison</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>February 23</td>
<td>Swedish patent office voids several Edison patents for lack
of use in the country
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>February</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Withdraws “Edison Effect” voltage indicator.</li>
<li>Loses retrial of civil suit brought by Lucy Seyfert</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>February-March</td>
<td>Fills pocket notebook with plans for experiments while on
Florida vacation</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>March 24</td>
<td>Is sent copies of the “Dot and Dash” Polka, named after
Edison’s children, Marion and Thomas, Jr., by composer and former telegrapher John Milliken.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>March 31</td>
<td>Returns to New York with Mary Edison</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>April 9</td>
<td>Father-in-law Nicholas Stilwell dies at Menlo Park.</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>April 22-26</td>
<td>Edison unwell and cancels planned trip to Newburgh, New York</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>April 24</td>
<td>Announces intention to disband Construction Department</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>April 28</td>
<td>Drafts letter with Edward Johnson, Samuel Insull, and
Francis Upton to Henry Villard regarding Edison Electic Light Co.’s Committee on Manufacturing and Reorganization
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>April-May</td>
<td>Works to pass bill in New Jersey legislature authorizing
electric lighting companies to put up poles or lay wires under the streets
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 1</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Moves family back to Gramercy Park house</li>
<li>Frank Sprague resigns</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May 1-2</td>
<td>Demonstrates electric lighting system at public exhibition in Worcester, Massachusetts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May 3</td>
<td>Charles Batchelor sails back to New York.</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 7</td>
<td>Accepts nomination as one of the vice presidents of the newly formed American Institute of Electrical Engineers</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 15</td>
<td>Prepares caveat and has John Ott conduct experiments to use an electromagnet to separate nonferrous ores.</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 21</td>
<td>Appoints Charles Batchelor general superintendent of Edi- son Machine Works</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 22</td>
<td>Has John Ott conduct experiments on using dynamos for telegraphy in preparation for promoting their use for that purpose</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 24</td>
<td>Asks Edison Electric Light Co. for authority over South American lighting business and subsequently receives it</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>May 28</td>
<td>Negotiates retainer with Richard Dyer and Henry Seely to serve as his patent attorneys.</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>June 1</td>
<td>Article about Mary Edison published in New York World</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June 18</td>
<td>Charles Coster and Grosvenor Lowrey propose reorgan- ization of Edison lighting companies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June-early July</td>
<td>Organizes Edison Shafting Co.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Gives up office space at 65 Fifth Avenue.</li>
<li>Begins week of sustained experimentation on direct conversion of coal into electricity.</li>
<li>Sheriff ’s sale of Menlo Park property held to satisfy judgment in Seyfert lawsuit.</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 9</td>
<td>Mary Edison dies at Menlo Park.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 23</td>
<td>Accepts appointment as a member of the “National Conference of Electricians</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 1</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Signs stockholding agreements with manufacturing shops as part of transfer of the Edison Construction Department’s business to Edison Co. for Isolated Lighting.</li>
<li>Signs lease for top floor of residence at 39 E. 18th Street, New York.</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 4-6</td>
<td>In Philadelphia with Marion to attend International Electri- cal Exhibition</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 15</td>
<td>Gives up lease on Gramercy Park home</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 16-19</td>
<td>Attends International Electrical Exhibition in Philadelphia with daughter Marion</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September 24</td>
<td>Returns to Philadelphia for several days</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>October 8</td>
<td>Asks Francis Upton to have lamp factory prepare special
stage effect lamps for Koster & Bial’s Concert Hall in New York.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 16-25</td>
<td>Seeks proxies from Edison Electric stockholders.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 21</td>
<td>Second sheriff ’s sale of Edison property at Menlo Park held to satisfy judgment in Seyfert lawsuit</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October 28</td>
<td>Edison Electric stockholders elect combination ticket to
board of directors</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>November 10</td>
<td>Attends Sullivan-Laflin fight at Madison Square Garden</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>November 15</td>
<td>Proposes to William Brewster to establish a syndicate for
the electric light business outside of Europe and the United States
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>November 28</td>
<td>Attends meeting of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Eu-
rope at his laboratory to discuss reorganization of French companies
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fall</td>
<td>Experiments on telephone technology for and negotiates contract with American Bell Telephone Co</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>December 20-24</td>
<td>Visits Boston in connection with telephone experiments and contract negotiation with American Bell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>December 21</td>
<td>Attends Boston Electrical Exhibition.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>December</td>
<td>Designs special theater lighting for use at Steele MacKaye’s
Lyceum Theater and the Bijou Theatre in Boston.
</td>
</tr>
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