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90 Dinwiddie died suddenly 1920. Allen the Efficiency Department, April 1919, Records the Financial Executive. Mambert’s employment with Thomas Edison, Inc. Conscientious and ambitious, Mambert gained the attention Edison senior and was soon promoted the post of efficiency engineer and given the job overhauling the laboratory organization. 92 Mambert Report, Financial Executive memo 3497, March 1916, Financial Executive records. Stephen Mambert.H. Edison’s policies relative Management, Labor and Sales" into action. Dinwiddie continued associated with disc record experiments after the war. began in 1913 when joined the company cost clerk. Edison thought that Mambert was the most valuable man he ever employed, revealing that "Mambert’s methods and showings have now enabled borrow very large sums, give good standing, and the banks have confidence. This was vital experimental project because the fate Edison’s Diamond Disc hinged removing the annoying surface noise that increased with playing time; even loyal Edison phonograph customers were switching other makes because this problem. 93 Robert Conot, Streak ofLuck, (New York: Seaview Books, 1979), 422; Report R. The gospel efficiency American business was led Frederick Taylor and his associates who attempted apply scientific principles increase the productivity the worker the shop floor.established the rear Building Dinwiddie would have been based there up until World War when was transferred Edison’s special experimental project reduce surface noise the new Diamond Discs. 90 The Phonograph Corporation Manhattan C. was promoted 1916 to vice president and financial executive. Mambert’s goal was strict financial accounting and relentlessly pressed each manager for exact financial information about costs, purchasing, payrolls, and accounts payable and receivable. The power and influence Mambert’s financial executive grew and 1916 ran his own empire from Building portrayed himself the means translate "Mr.H. Wilson [Division heads?], December 14, 1914 (in 1914, Phonograph); Stephen Mambert to Edison Storage Battery Company, January 22, 1916 (in 1916, Battery, Storage).H. Wilson, January 1915, Record Manufacturing Division Records, Box 17. 91 C. He was transferred from disc record production around 1917 and assigned help Edison with his experiments surface noise.92 His usefulness was probably more liaison with the financial community than as an efficiency expert. His opportunity came year later when was made assistant Charles Edison.91 Mambert was soon given his own department cost clerks and accountants."93 Mambert also had his uses tool reduce costs the 38