MOSES G. FARMER

HE BEAT, AND INSPIRED EDISON

TO DEVELOP THE INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB — BY 20 YEARS!

FARMER, MOSES G.    (1820-1893).  American electrical engineer and inventor; built a platinum filament incandescent light in 1859 and lit the parlor of his home with incandescent lamps, thus being the first house in the world to be lit by electricity; pioneer telegraph operator; fabricated a process for electroplating aluminum; with William Wallace, invented an early dynamo which powered a system of arc lights which he exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, which in turn inspired Thomas Edison to work on an improved incandescent light! [Edison actually used the Wallace-Farmer 8 horsepower (6.0 kW) dynamo to power his early electric light demonstrations.]  His excessively scarce Signature “Moses G. Farmer” penned on a 24mo card.  [Approximately 3 x 1 ¾ inches]. No place, no date.  Accompanied by an 1893 letter sending the autograph to a doctor who had requested it.                                               

 

$1500.00