The first commercial solution was based stearic acid and its
salt, sodium stearate, common fatty acid used the manufacture soap and
candles. The partition and brick walls facing the balance
room had large glass door cabinets placed front them, and the shelves inside
held chemicals and glassware.
Wangemann, and Albert Wurth. The
wax was also sensitive heat: high temperatures caused softening and low
temperatures made the cylinder brittle and liable crack.
The smallest crack bubble the wax compound-small enough invisible to
the eye-caused crackle that could distinctly heard the record played.Experiments the composition the wax cylinder for the Edison phonograph
began soon the West Orange laboratory opened and continued into the
twentieth century.342
342 Aylsworth’s lab notes Notebook N-88-08-23.)
Building Period II: 1901-1914
A 1904 photograph (figure 17) taken from the door the balance room shows a
brick room, probably erected 1890 earlier, about feet long built along the
east wall the chemical laboratory. cooling, congealed into thick molten wax into which metal forms
were dipped make cylinders.. Much the work on
the wax cylinder was therefore directed testing wax compounds under different
conditions."343 An
experimental notebook kept Albert and Charles Wurth reveals that much the
development work for this project was carried out the second and third floors of
Building 5.B..
344 Notebook N-91-11-24.344 (Also see sections Franz Schulze-Berge, Theo E. Entrance this rear room could only have been
100
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343 TAE S. An
additional partition was built from the west wall the building the wall this
brick room, cutting off the balance room and the space front from the main
room (see schematic plan 4). Eaton, December 11, 1890, Letterbook 46, (LB046097). The mixture was heated about 480°F and then filtered through fine
muslin. early 1888 Edison had begun experimental project
to duplicate recordings making molds cylinders, and soon stated that his
business plan for this new product was based mass producing prerecorded
cylinders: "What want the manufacturing duplicates. The north and south walls the room
extended from partition built down the middle aisle the east wall..
Experiments making duplicate recordings were very important part Edison’s
phonograph business
