These notes, compiled 5-by-8-inch notecards
and filed numerically, were made Norman Speiden and cover a
wide variety subjects.
7
.
Jones, chief personnel Thomas Edison, Inc.
Hutchison Diary. They are arranged chronologically and dated the first
written date the book. These books cover all the accounts the
laboratory and come many forms. Vouchers cited evidence the
report are referred voucher number and year. This the diary Miller Reese Hutchison, a
former chief engineer the laboratory and one Edison’s closest
associates. These orders were requests for work carried out
by the laboratory staff. The invoices provide the vendor’s
name and type business, date transaction, description of
purchase, and purchase price. These are the bound diaries Edison’s closest
associate, Charles Batchelor, the 1870s and 1880s. Many these books will filmed the
Edison Papers Project. from 1916 to
1921.
Voucher Collection.
Edison Pioneers Collection. This collection contains purchase vouchers for
all expenditures the West Orange laboratory from 1887 through
the 1930s. The shop orders are listed some
laboratory notebooks and descriptions the work sometimes appear
in accounts records. Vouchers indicate the amount paid and account charged
for items the attached invoices.notebooks.
Shop Orders.
Historian’s Notes. Each was given number which expenses
could allocated account.
Account Books. Each applicant filed biography and these
forms, with supplemental material, are filed alphabetically. The distribution labor
worksheets provide good breakdown the laboratory work force. The Edison Pioneers were formed by
old Edison associates. Former Edison workers who wrote visited
the laboratory often gave information Speiden, which recorded
in note form. The majority the entries are from the period 1907 to
1915.
Batchelor Diaries.
Jones Collection. This group records was collected Mark M
