Among Edison’s “things doing and to be done,”:
Cotton picker, new standard phonograph, deaf apparatus, electrical piano, artificial silk, marine telegraphy. chalk battery, ink for blind.
Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs, discover the measurement of Corte Vecchio, get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle, draw Milan.
“written with the hand of him who wishes he were yours.”
- Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine Merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders
- Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night.
- Ask about the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese