Thomas Edison (1847 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph typewriter and microphone to naine a few Considered perhaps the greatest inventor of the century A.N. S. in pencil on the bottom of a Tls 1920 from C. E. Scholes of the Edison Storage Battery Co. Scholes requests iron pencils for work on lithium in storage cells Edison lab assistant Fagan forwards the letter to Edison who writes in pencil fagan Better furnish them S. Lake can make them Edison Some docketing and other notes on the letter Edison comments are undisturbed.