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Professorships and other jobs were offered to me but I made a vow never to tie myself again to any man, business or University when I could not sever my connections instantly. I took my family to Europe to see our parents. Then my wife and children went to the Riviera for the winter while I went to study Electrochemistry at the Charlottenburg polytechnicum and do research on gas storage batteries and alkaline storage cells. - Edison at that time had not yet begun his work on a similar subject. I met in Dr [[von Knovic's?]]
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Laboratory at the Polytechnicum my friend Charles Herty and made several other pleasant acquaintances, all post graduates like myself and several who like myself had already been teaching chemistry. [[strikethrough]] The day [[/strikethrough]] I was living at the Hotel Savoy, which then was one of Berlin's best hotels, when one morning I received the unexpected visit of Eastman with Mr. Clark, a Bostonian who was the manager of the Eastman enterprises in England. It was [[strikethrough]] eleven [[/strikethrough]] ^[[only]] 11. A.M yet Eastman to my astonishment ordered Champagne and we had a very pleasant

Transcription Notes:
Charles Herty is mentioned in other Baekeland diaries.