There are hints the laboratory correspondence that point Edison’s
involvement this testing and his subsequent use room the third floor.
301 Stephen Mambert Mullin Wayne, March 28, 1923, Biographical Collection. In
1912, newspaper article reported him the third floor the laboratory, a
small room "roughly boarded off’ from big room (presumably the music room)
where was testing records.
R.." assisting Randolph from 1888 through
1896. One Edison’s personal secretaries, Kellow had office this
floor.297
297 TAE Fred Ott, August 1911 (in 1911; Battery, Storage, 2).
298 Milwaukee Sentinel, September 1912 (in 1912, Phonograph). Miller acted treasurer Edison’s business enterprise. Kellow began his career the laboratory secretary Charles Edison’s
assistant, George Clark, around 1917. Dyer and Martin commented that visitor this area
"hears from all sides the sounds vocal and instrumental music constantly
varying volume and timbre. He
joined the laboratory assistant Edison’s secretary John Randolph.302 He
began "office boy, clerk, etc.
2SB Figure 139; Album 10, catalog 5209.
3113 Edison Pioneers questionnaire, Edison Pioneers Records, Box 26."301
Harry Miller. Kellow.303 After Randolph died 1908, Miller became Edison’s primary personal
secretary. eventually became office manager
in charge several Edison’s "personal undertakings, such Chemical
Plants."300 The third floor also housed several offices for
business administration the laboratory and for those attending Edison’s
private correspondence.little boy testing records" could kept busy testing new recordings and doing odd
jobs.
According the 1910 version Dyer and Martin’s biography Edison, Miller
was Edison’s personal secretary, operating from office the third floor, "where
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302 Edison Pioneers Records, Box 26..
300 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, 651.298 There are also several photographs showing
him listening disc phonographs, presumably near the music room.299
The activities the test and music rooms filled the third floor Building with
the sounds music
