Always at
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. The door always open, and often can seen seated plain table in
the centre the room, deeply intent some the number problems which
he interested.
World War brought program train war workers, including women and boys,
in the machine shops. The table usually pretty well filled with specimens data of
experimental results which have been put there for his examination.465
Building Heavy Machine Shop, Period III: 1915-1931
The machine tools this shop remained basically unchanged during this period." The
chief engineer complained the difficulties persuading Edison buy new
equipment: "The last thing get anything the laboratory..
In 1918, Charles Luhr, the superintendent the shop, admitted that was not
equipped with the most date machines: "It very ancient material.
4M "Meeting the Executive Committee Verbatim Report," May 16, 1918, Thomas, Edison, Inc..
457 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, 649. This operation was also carried out Building 6.454
454 MRH TAE, February 24, 1914 (in 1914, Battery, Storage-Testing).
Records, Box 40.
455 "Floor Areas Laboratory Building," November 25, 1918, 1918, WOL.came next room 10.458
Dyer and Martin provide more details about the room’s furnishings their 1910
description:
Plain aspect, being merely space boarded off with tongued-and-grooved planks-
as all the other rooms are-without ornament floor covering, and containing only
a few articles cheap furniture, this room seems exercise nameless charm for
him."466
Building Edison’s Room (Room 12): Periods II, and III
Edison maintained personal experimental room the second floor, located by
Dyer and Martin: "first order one leaves the head the stairs leading to
[the second] floor.."457 Sidney Davis worked laboratory assistant the
second floor 1899 and remembered little laboratory directly across the hall"
occupied Edison.
468 Edison Pioneers Records, Box 21. Its purpose was save time waiting for the elevator
and cut down the traffic from the second floor the main entrance, which took
workmen past the library (figure 106)
