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5/1/1911 Edison Co releases recording Amberol cylinder recording “Winter Song” by the Knickerbocker Quartet 5/1/1911 TAE signs application for US patent 1,050,619 for separating copper from nickel to make nickel flake for storage batteries 5/1/1911 Miller Reese Hutchison, engineer working for TAE on submarine storage battery, moves family to West Orange ]5/2/1911 US Patent Office issues TAE patent #991,433 for bucket conveyor 5/2/1911 Edison Co releases film “The Panama Canal” a documentary showing construction progress on the canal, which opened in 1915 5/3/1911 TAE offers view of religion: “if we all carry out the Golden Rule in this life, we have very little to fear from the hereafter” 5/3/1911 Edison Co signs two year contract with recording artist Rudolph Berger for $750 a year 5/4/1911 TAE learns the Bertrands, one of the oldest French families in New Orleans, named their new-born son after him – Edison Bertrand 5/5/1911 Edison Co releases film based on Verdi opera “Aida” – enslaved Ethiopian princess falls in love with a captain of Pharaoh’s guard 5/6/1911 TAE writes letter to Asst. Postmaster General praising his brother-in-law, Robert Miller, who is postmaster for Ponce, Puerto Rico 5/7/1911 Mrs. Edison’s brother Lewis advises TAE to buy a Thomas auto instead of a Packard, says he can get a 4 door model for $3500 5/8/1911 TAE renews his annual subscription to American Machinist for $5.80, for use in the lab drafting room 5/9/1911 Edison Co releases film “Edna’s Imprisonment.” Mother takes Edna to dad’s office. The clerk accidentally locks her in the vault 5/9/1911 Mrs Edison attends gymnastics exhibition at Washington Street School, West Orange, NJ 5/10/1911 TAE says he can work 18-hour days because he eats and sleeps very little and wears clothes that don’t pinch the blood veins 5/10/1911 TAE says in his experience in most cases deafness cannot be cured 5/11/1911 TAE asks Mt. Pleasant Cemetary in Newark if both of his plots are in use. First wife Mary Stilwell Edison buried in Mt. Pleasant 5/13/1911 Miller Reese Hutchison gives Baron von Preuschen of Austria-Hungary tour of West Orange lab 5/12/1911 TAE signs application for US patent 1,050,630 for Art of Separating Copper from other metals 5/14/1911 Miller Reese Hutchison reports TAE experimenting on insulation grids for storage battery electrolytes 5/15/1911 Miller Reese Hutchison takes TAE & Mrs Edison for test ride in Simplex auto using Edison storage battery 5/15/1911 NY American reporter asks TAE’s view of theory that water shortages and adverse weather caused by use of electricity 5/16/1911 TAE signs application for US patent 1,055,621 for improved phonograph reproducer 5/17/1911 Arthur von Barth of NYC wants TAE to invest in his invention – an automatic payroll machine 5/18/1911 M. Newman of New York City asks TAE “is it possible to melt and evaporate snow by electricity.” TAE says it would be too expensive 5/19/1911 TAE says his crushing rolls in a Tomkins Cove, NY limestone plant can crush 17-ton stones & crush 10,000 tons of rock in 10 hours 5/20/1911 J.W. Smith, proprietor of Royal Palm Theater in Fort Myers asks TAE to invest in his motion picture inventions. TAE declines 5/22/1911 Automobile Club of America sends TAE honorary membership card for the year 1911 5/23/1911 18 year old high school graduate William von Gaasbeck of Kingston, NY asks TAE for a job – no openings 5/24/1911 J. Herbert Reeve of San Francisco wants to give TAE 1000 shares of Nevada Copper Butte Mining Co stock. TAE doesn’t answer 5/25/1911 Frank Dyer, pres of Edison Co. tells TAE’s son Thomas Jr. he can spend up to $855 to buy new Ford touring car 5/26/1911 TAE’s daughter Madeleine performs in stage comedy “The New Lady Bantock” at New Lyceum in East Orange, NJ 5/26/1911 Mrs. Edison grocery list: bread, cream, 3 lbs Swiss cheese, 2 cans tomatoes, 2 boxes saltines, 6 bananas, 12 bottles of Budweiser 5/27/1911 Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phila writes TAE re development of storage battery for use in railroad locomotives 5/28/1911 Edison Storage Battery Co negotiates with Electric Boat Co of New London, Conn for sale of 192 batteries for submarines 5/29/1911 Home Educational Society of NY asks TAE to write article for book “Hints for the Home” – advice for newlyweds5/30/1911 E.M. Clay of Delaware, Ohio asks TAE for loan to patent his new electric railroad 5/31/1911 Madeleine, Thomas and Mina’s daughter, celebrates her 23rd birthday 5/31/1911 Edison lab pays Citizen Ice Co of Orange, NJ $13.35 for 53 lbs of ice for the month of May ................
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