lofty and capacious glass-
enclosed cabinets, company with numerous models Edison’s inventions, repose many
of the costly and elaborate instruments rendered useless the ubiquitous trolley.
Instruments are all about, walls, tables, and shelves; the photometer covered up;
induction coils various capacities, with other electrical paraphernalia, lie around, almost
as the experimenter were absent for few days but would soon return and resume his
work. 1915, the
experimenters were installed this partitioned room and their equipment can be
seen the pier tables (see figure 8). This image shows
Newman Holland work his pier table and the line offices the east side
of the building.322
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This room did not last long: photograph taken September 1915 (figure 9)
shows the same two pier tables without the partitions.
The open space the middle the building was left open until some time after
1906 when offices were created along the east side the main room.320
320 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp.
For some time past has been used for photography and some special experiments on
motion pictures, well for demonstrations connected with physical research; but some
reminders its old-time glory still remain evidence.
With the decline electrical experiments the laboratory, most the expensive
measuring equipment was longer use and much this building was
converted storage. these
were experimental rooms, they could have been quickly erected from wood panels.
Around 1912, Newman Holland and his assistant moved into this building to
continue their development the dictating machine.321 Figure taken in
February 1915, shows that room was also partitioned off the west side the
building, containing two the pier tables (see schematic plan 1). 652-53.plans, had not been many years established the laboratory before trolley
road through West Orange was projected and built, the line passing front the
plant and within seventy-five feet the galvanometer-room, thus making it
practically impossible use for the delicate purposes for which was originally
intended.
321 MRH TAE, October 29, 1912 (in 1912, WOL-General).
322 National Park Service, "Historic Structures Report, Physics Laboratory, Building 1,” nd, title page,
first page starts with historical data section, pp, 6-7, appendix drawing no. 2. Offices for experimenters were established the front part
of the building, which was divided from the main room. The staff this
laboratory carried out their experiments the pier tables the west side the
building (figure 7)
