A.378 Yet this was not the first
time clock this building, nor was the first time that experimenters and
executives had clock in. door was positioned in
the frame the large arched window that stood across the hallway from the
entrance the stock room. The vestibule
appears made out wood panels and does not reach the ceiling (figure
48). 1904 Byron photograph shows time clock outside
the stock room (figure 92). 1903 or
1904 M.
The purpose this structural change was probably provide waiting room for
visitors Edison the library and separate these visitors from laboratory
staff making their way the machine shops and storeroom. Rosanoff found Edison ’’in small reception room” which could have
been the library the hallway outside the library doors. Photographs taken 1915 show that vestibule has been erected in
this passageway with door leading the doorway the library.A. See figure 120.376
376 M.
378 Photograph Album 10, catalog 5209, 103.
In 1912 photographs one can see through the passageway (behind the main door
to Building all the way the window that looked out onto Lakeside Avenue
(figure 47). (See schematic plan 5. Rosanoff, "Edison His Laboratory," Harper’s Monthly Magazine 165 (Sept.Building Hallway, Period 1887-1900 and Period II: 1901-1914
The main entrance Building led the doorway the library.377
In 1912 the new chief engineer, Miller Reese Hutchison, quickly made his mark on
Building was proud the time clock installed the main entrance and
there are several photographs Edison clocking in.) People entering the building and going the
storeroom and machine shop travelled the left the vestibule. floor plan of
1916 this space designated "waiting room. 1932), 402.
377 This was one two doors Lakeside Avenue; the other was freight door the first floor machine
shop." During this period the other
major entrance Building was Lakeside Avenue.
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