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Adolph Wunderlich (ca. 1869-1942) was an inventor, engineer, and businessman who was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved
to Cleveland, Ohio, as a child. He held patents for inventions and improvements on electric arc lamps, hoisting and lowering
mechanisms, suspension devices for electric arc lamps, winches, lubricating devices, and caulking devices. He lived in England
from 1898-1912 where he installed London's first street lights and headed his own electrical firm. He founded the Western
Reserve Manufacturing Works in Cleveland in 1914. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, apprenticeship records,
catalogs, certificates, correspondence, extracts, financial documents, instructions, legal documents, memoranda, newspaper
clippings, pamphlets, patents, a scorecard, and a will.
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