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Henry Price Ball - Edison Electrical Engineer & Inventor/Signature

$ 16.36

Availability: 88 in stock
  • Signed: Yes
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Scattered glue show-through otherwise very good.
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Signed by: Henry Price Ball
  • Autograph Authentication: Bill Mavodones
  • Industry: Science, Inventor

    Description

    Henry Price Ball (1867-?) - Electrical engineer and electrical appliance inventor, who began his engineering career under Thomas A. Edison. He held patents for the adapter for incandescent-lamp sockets (1892); Trolley(circuit) breaker(1894, with Charles Lieb); electrical measuring instruments (1900); control switch (1905); (elecric) attaching plug (1915); a burner for vapor stoves, assignor to S. Sternau & Co. (Sterno) (1921).
    Henry Price Ball married Anna Daily, daughter of Thomas Daily and Mary Jane (?), in 1890. They had one child, Mabel Ball1 b. Apr 1906.
    4.8” x 2.3” vintage slip, signed in fountain pen, adding “Feb 14/(19)37.” Scattered glue show-through otherwise very good.
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