October 18 Tuesday – From Sam’s notebook:

Tuesday, a.m., Oct. 18, 1887, Paige showed me (& Whitmore, North, Earl, & two or three others,) and experiment with his new dynamo & motor, to prove that one of the laws laid down in the electrical books is not a law at all. He thinks it a great discovery that he has thus made; & proposes to apply it in a machine which shall show surprising results.

Notes: Charles R. North was the inventor of the typesetter’s automatic justifier, and became one of the Hartford investors in the typesetter; Charles I. Earll was one of the draftsmen working with Paige.

Charles Webster wrote Sam that the statement would be “along in a day or two”; he’d “failed to see Laffan” after “trying hard to see him, he was out of town now.” Webster was struggling [MTP].