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Second and third page of The Edison Electric Light Company bulletin for February 1882. These pages were found in the company's initial five bulletin run. Having been located initially during the first year of operation at 65 Fifth Avenue, These two pages are part of a consecutive five bulletin run that the Edison company produced internally for use by it agents and employees.

Having been located initially during the first year of operation at 65 Fifth Avenue, As a burgeoning enterprise The Edison Electric Light Company delegated from this office the initial activity for installations of its very first isolated power plants and also soon central station power generation facilities across the United States, as they became developed.

The very first Edison electric incandescent light installation took place on the ocean going vessel the S.S. Columbia in 1880. The very first installation anywhere of the Edison electric incandescent lighting system on land took place at the Hinds, Ketcham & Company printing and lithography offices at 449 Water Street, New York City in 1881.

This first land installation fulfilled a desire by the Hinds, Ketcham & Company operators to be able to match colors between color samples accurately with that of finished printed work. The company successfully found that incandescent lighting increased production. This notion is concisely revealed and attested to in a February 23, 1882 letter from Hinds, Ketch & Company to The Edison Electric Light Company, and is stated as follows;

"New York, February 23, 1882. THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO; - DEAR SIRS - - We have had the Edison system of incandescent electric lighting in our factory buildings since January, 1881, and take great pleasure in testifying to its perfection, simplicity, and the many other good features it possesses.

We have found it to be entirely free from all the faults and objectionable features of other artificial lights, and is the best substitute for daylight we have ever known and almost as cheap. Very truly yours, Hinds, Ketcham & Co."

It is interesting and significant to note how these two pages wholly reveal and document a most candid, concise and specific historical record of the first land installation of electric incandescent lighting in the world.

Original document found and scanned by archivist, historian and author Richard Warren Lipack.