Electrical engineer. Designed Folsom Power Plant in 1895, which fed Sacramento for decades. Colleague of Thomas A. Edison and inventor in his own right.
Lighthipe Substation (SCE), Long Beach, is named after him although the plaque on the building has his middle name as Alva.
Aug. 13, 1889 U.S. Patent for improved arc light.
Instrumental in the development of electromotograph telephone in 1879 on Edison's staff. Envoy to London with models of the device.
Developed the Harmonic Selective Signal four party telephone system. Patent in 1895.
Following from an unidentified blog, "The Man From Bear River."
James Alfred joined the ranks of Thomas Alva Edison as a man of age 18 or 19 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. James had been born in the neighborhood, so to speak - Orange, New Jersey. Today, it is just tiny microcosm of the Urban sprawl known as Newark. James Alfred was involved in a significant portion of Mr. Edison's major inventions and developments. By 1879 Edison was managing a laboratory of individuals. Most of these men became the core of what historically called the Edison Pioneers. Historically an exclusive club, both in the sence of exclusive and limited numbers and also in terms of their prominence. One that my great grand father retained a lifelong friendship and professional relationship with was Charles Batchelor. Traditions within the family purport that James Alfred was the individual who was directed to develop the phonograph under Mr. Edison's tutelage. That makes sense, as it was a subsequent application of Mr. Edison's work on the Edison Telephone. In 1881 James Alfred was directed by Mr. Edison to journey to London in the United Kingdom to supervise installation of what became the first phone sysem to be installed there.
Lighthipe Substation (SCE), Long Beach, is named after him although the plaque on the building has his middle name as Alva.
Aug. 13, 1889 U.S. Patent for improved arc light.
Instrumental in the development of electromotograph telephone in 1879 on Edison's staff. Envoy to London with models of the device.
Developed the Harmonic Selective Signal four party telephone system. Patent in 1895.
Following from an unidentified blog, "The Man From Bear River."
James Alfred joined the ranks of Thomas Alva Edison as a man of age 18 or 19 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. James had been born in the neighborhood, so to speak - Orange, New Jersey. Today, it is just tiny microcosm of the Urban sprawl known as Newark. James Alfred was involved in a significant portion of Mr. Edison's major inventions and developments. By 1879 Edison was managing a laboratory of individuals. Most of these men became the core of what historically called the Edison Pioneers. Historically an exclusive club, both in the sence of exclusive and limited numbers and also in terms of their prominence. One that my great grand father retained a lifelong friendship and professional relationship with was Charles Batchelor. Traditions within the family purport that James Alfred was the individual who was directed to develop the phonograph under Mr. Edison's tutelage. That makes sense, as it was a subsequent application of Mr. Edison's work on the Edison Telephone. In 1881 James Alfred was directed by Mr. Edison to journey to London in the United Kingdom to supervise installation of what became the first phone sysem to be installed there.
Electrical engineer. Designed Folsom Power Plant in 1895, which fed Sacramento for decades. Colleague of Thomas A. Edison and inventor in his own right.
Lighthipe Substation (SCE), Long Beach, is named after him although the plaque on the building has his middle name as Alva.
Aug. 13, 1889 U.S. Patent for improved arc light.
Instrumental in the development of electromotograph telephone in 1879 on Edison's staff. Envoy to London with models of the device.
Developed the Harmonic Selective Signal four party telephone system. Patent in 1895.
Following from an unidentified blog, "The Man From Bear River."
James Alfred joined the ranks of Thomas Alva Edison as a man of age 18 or 19 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. James had been born in the neighborhood, so to speak - Orange, New Jersey. Today, it is just tiny microcosm of the Urban sprawl known as Newark. James Alfred was involved in a significant portion of Mr. Edison's major inventions and developments. By 1879 Edison was managing a laboratory of individuals. Most of these men became the core of what historically called the Edison Pioneers. Historically an exclusive club, both in the sence of exclusive and limited numbers and also in terms of their prominence. One that my great grand father retained a lifelong friendship and professional relationship with was Charles Batchelor. Traditions within the family purport that James Alfred was the individual who was directed to develop the phonograph under Mr. Edison's tutelage. That makes sense, as it was a subsequent application of Mr. Edison's work on the Edison Telephone. In 1881 James Alfred was directed by Mr. Edison to journey to London in the United Kingdom to supervise installation of what became the first phone sysem to be installed there.
Lighthipe Substation (SCE), Long Beach, is named after him although the plaque on the building has his middle name as Alva.
Aug. 13, 1889 U.S. Patent for improved arc light.
Instrumental in the development of electromotograph telephone in 1879 on Edison's staff. Envoy to London with models of the device.
Developed the Harmonic Selective Signal four party telephone system. Patent in 1895.
Following from an unidentified blog, "The Man From Bear River."
James Alfred joined the ranks of Thomas Alva Edison as a man of age 18 or 19 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. James had been born in the neighborhood, so to speak - Orange, New Jersey. Today, it is just tiny microcosm of the Urban sprawl known as Newark. James Alfred was involved in a significant portion of Mr. Edison's major inventions and developments. By 1879 Edison was managing a laboratory of individuals. Most of these men became the core of what historically called the Edison Pioneers. Historically an exclusive club, both in the sence of exclusive and limited numbers and also in terms of their prominence. One that my great grand father retained a lifelong friendship and professional relationship with was Charles Batchelor. Traditions within the family purport that James Alfred was the individual who was directed to develop the phonograph under Mr. Edison's tutelage. That makes sense, as it was a subsequent application of Mr. Edison's work on the Edison Telephone. In 1881 James Alfred was directed by Mr. Edison to journey to London in the United Kingdom to supervise installation of what became the first phone sysem to be installed there.
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