Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and Adolphe Salles standing by railings on a platform of the tower. Photograph, 1889.

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1889
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579008i
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Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and Adolphe Salles standing by railings on a platform of the tower. Photograph, 1889. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A list of visitors accompanying Edison at the Eiffel tower on 13 August 1889 (Wellcome Library MS 8548/5) includes "A. Salles", presumably Adolphe Salles (b. 1858, engineer, married Clara Eiffel, appointed manager of the Eiffel tower)

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1889

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.2 x 7.1 cm

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Edison ; M. Salles Lettering on verso Signature (indistinct) in lower right hand corner of mount

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Wellcome Collection 579008i

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