A HISTORY OF EDISON'S WEST ORANGE LABORATORY 1887-1931

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During the 1920s, research expenditures and AT&T rose steadily. Its work force and expenditure that year, $338,680 55 were much less than the Edison laboratory. 54 formally trained. 1926 had dropped below $150,000— one tenth GE's costs. Eastman Kodak, for example, increased the staff its laboratory from 1913 in 1920. There were several laboratories that had smaller staffs and budgets. the early 1920s the West Orange laboratory employed around 200 men, yet only about them were . GE's laboratory Schenectady, for example, had a staff around 300 1920, including about scientists and engineers. Yet terms of quality and quantity staff, Edison's laboratory could not compare with the front rank and AT&T industrial research. Despite the decline the work force during the purges of the 1920s, the West Orange lab was still major important research facility. the other hand, the expenses Edison's laboratory decreased.XIII-27 of the amusement phonograph, but the work force the West Orange laboratory 1920s was relatively untrained and underqualified when compared with other industrial research laboratories. The "best lab ever" was now a shadow its former stature the leading research institution the United States. . Western Electric's Research Branch had 234 employees 1921, many whom were Phds and professional engineers