All known metals form sheet, rod and tube, and great variety in
thickness, are here found also, together with most complete assortment tools
and accessories for machine shop and laboratory work. Two photographs depict Edison portrait
by Ellis Silvette propped next the current stock room fence.textiles, cotton and silk threads great variety, with woven goods all kinds from
cheese-cloth silk plush.448
Building Heavy Machine Shop, Period 1887-1900
Both the heavy machine shop and the precision machine shop were equipped with
general purpose machine tools-lathes, shapers, planers, and milling machines—
and there was little the machine shops that could not found any well-
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.. The cabinet the foreground figure has been replaced
by simple table, but general, most the supplies visible the photographs
are stored essentially the same locations. 645-47. Portions the old barrier were
also used this new fence which still place.It has counterpart the world!447
447 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp..
Building Stock Room, Period III: 1915-1931
Photographs taken 1929 indicate that the wooden barrier and wire mesh were
taken down sometime during this period...a stock clerk kept
exceedingly busy all day answering the numerous and various demands upon
him.. The built-in shelves
retain their earlier configuration, both sets cabinets with drawers visible
in figures and 92. for paper, there everything white and colored,
from thinnest tissue the heaviest asbestos, even few newspapers being
always hand. Twines all sizes, inks, waxes, cork, tar, resin, pitch, turpentine,
asphalt, plumbago, glass sheets and tubes; and host miscellaneous articles
revealed looking around the shelves, well interminable collection of
chemicals, including acids, alkalies, salts, reagents, every conceivable essential oil
and all the thinkable extracts.. They were replaced different sort
of wire mesh with barbed wire attached its top. Light fixtures are the same both
photographs, although the wiring, visible the ceiling, appears have been
updated the later photograph.
A 1904 photograph Byron (figure 92) shows that fence has been added the
waist-high counter that separated the stock room from the passage way. may remarked that this collection includes the
eighteen hundred more florescent [sic] salts made Edison during his
experimental search for the best material for fluoroscope the initial X-ray
period.
448 Uncataloged 1929 photographs Photograph Album 16. An
elaborate time clock mounted the comer the counter
