dainty crystals
and coral...
442 McClure, Edison and His Inventions, 21..441 Another visitor about this time remembered that the organic
materials such skin and teeth animals were kept the chemical
department.
441 Jones, The Life Story Thomas Alva Edison, 302.the south end the library, presumably control the crowds people moving
through the room. The first edition this book was 1907.."444
The well known quote about stocking everything from "an elephant’s hide the
eyeballs United States Senator" has been repeated many times that we
129
. 291-292.442
Dickson’s account the store room notes shelves, metal sheets and rods present
in this room and these can seen his photograph.shining metals, lucent crystals.among mosses and sea-weed," and "skins snakes and fishes. These could the "thousands small drawers"
containing exotic materials which were described visitor around the turn of
the century. The stock room contained "bones birds and animals,
feathers, hides, teeth and horns.
443 Dickson and Dickson, The Life and Inventions Thomas Alva Edison, pp., 291; see also E.439
439 See figure 88..443
The sheer number supplies Edison imported West Orange and the exotic
range materials kept hand have become part the myth the West
Orange laboratory.
444 Ibid. 103-04. front this shelving, facing the Lakeside Avenue side, line of
cabinets, five six drawers high, which stretches least three quarters the
length the store room. This
quote also says that these cabinets went from floor ceiling and that they were labelled-not evident figure
90.
440 Fessenden, "The Inventions Reginald Fessenden," Radio News (August 1925), 156. also mentions ropes,
chemicals, leather, hides, paper, marble, textiles, and ice cream freezer.
Building Stock Room, Period 1887-1900
Fessenden’s rough plan the laboratory indicates very large store room the
first floor Building bounded passageways the west (separating the store
room from the library) and south (parallel Lakeside Avenue), the machine shop
on the east, and the exterior wall the north.C.. Kenyon, Thomas Alva Edison, (New York: Whittaker, 1896), pp.440
A photograph taken Dickson between 1888 and 1892 shows shelving running
from floor ceiling along the north-south axis the room, much does now
(figure 90)
