Thomas A. Edison inspecting the E 2 submarine – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Thomas A. Edison inspecting the E 2 submarine in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Thomas A. Edison inspecting the E 2 submarine
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Edison is shown inspecting the E 2, a submarine, in a picture whose caption card gives no date. The American Press Association held the copyright, which suggests a news photograph meant for newspaper distribution rather than a studio portrait. Edison's public role in naval matters grew during the First World War, when he served on the Naval Consulting Board, formed in 1915 to bring civilian inventors and engineers into defense planning, including submarine detection. Pictures like this one showed the public an inventor working on military technology at a time when the navy depended on outside expertise.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by the American Press Ass'n. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Submarines--US; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138543 |
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