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<p>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)</p>

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.2 x 7.1 cm

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

Thomas Alva Edison. Photograph by White & Co.

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 27 cm

Edison's electric light : biography of an invention / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

Thomas Edison, chemist / Byron M. Vanderbilt.

volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

The papers of Thomas A. Edison / editors, Reese V. Jenkins [and others].

A Science Museum booklet

48 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Thomas Edison, professional inventor / [Thomas Parke Hughes].

<p>Edison visited  the Eiffel tower on 13 August 1889 (Wellcome Library MS 8548/5)</p>

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8 x 7.8 cm

Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and another man chatting at the base of the tower. Photograph, 1889.

Odense University studies in English

229 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

The invented self : an anti-biography, from documents of Thomas A. Edison / by David E. Nye.

Thomas Alva Edison. Etching by A. Lalauze, 1891.

414 pages, 11 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

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

Thomas Alva Edison. Photograph by White & Co.

Edison's electric light : biography of an invention / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

Thomas Edison, chemist / Byron M. Vanderbilt.

The papers of Thomas A. Edison / editors, Reese V. Jenkins [and others].

Thomas Edison, professional inventor / [Thomas Parke Hughes].

Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and another man chatting at the base of the tower. Photograph, 1889.

The invented self : an anti-biography, from documents of Thomas A. Edison / by David E. Nye.

Thomas Alva Edison. Etching by A. Lalauze, 1891.

Famous American men of science / by J.G. Crowther.

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

Thomas Alva Edison. Photograph by White & Co.

Edison's electric light : biography of an invention / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

Thomas Edison, chemist / Byron M. Vanderbilt.

The papers of Thomas A. Edison / editors, Reese V. Jenkins [and others].

Thomas Edison, professional inventor / [Thomas Parke Hughes].

Eiffel Tower, Paris: Thomas Alva Edison and another man chatting at the base of the tower. Photograph, 1889.

The invented self : an anti-biography, from documents of Thomas A. Edison / by David E. Nye.

Thomas Alva Edison. Etching by A. Lalauze, 1891.

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