452 Incorporated, Statement Showing cost development work now being done for the
Laboratory.
A great variety machine tools and special dies were built for the storage battery
factory across Lakeside Avenue.
A Byron photo (figure 100) probably taken around 1904, not only shows new
machines, but also reveals the general clutter that characteristic working
shop. chain, used hoist large workpieces between the
centers the Fifield, hangs from beam, supported jack-studs either end of
the lathe.
The low beaded wood partition around the steam engine still visible the back
of the shop, the 64-inch Putnam planer. The Putnam
horizontal boring mill was probably gone; the Niles planer stands its place and
the vertical boring mill could have taken over most its work. The manufacture these batteries was highly
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1890 the number new machines purchased dropped dramatically, the result of
the end the construction phase and Edison’s preoccupation with ore milling in
the New Jersey mountains. large assembly with cable sheaves either end rests the center aisle;
another sheave leaning against the Fifield lathe.-Financial).
The shop was clearly engaged large-scale machining.
The Niles Tool Works Hamilton, Ohio, received large orders from the Edison
laboratory during this period: 36-inch planer and travelling head shaper show in
figure 100, along with the tools for the vertical boring mill." [as September 1914] (in 1914, Thomas Edison, Inc. safe say that activity this shop increased significantly the turn
of the century. The 30-inch Putnam lathe had been
moved its present location, its back-gear just visible behind the faceplate a
new 26-inch Fifield lathe. It
produced the automatic disc presses that went into the disc record plant. large (about nine feet
long) partially turned shaft sits six-wheel truck the foreground figure
100.
During this period the machine shop was kept busy making great number of
machines used the mass production records and storage batteries. good-sized cast-iron
flywheel stands edge the end the travelling-head shaper. The out-of-focus image Allen double-spindle drill press can be
made out the right edge the photo.Building Heavy Machine Shop, Period II: 1901-1914
The photograph the machine shop taken Dickson around 1890 shows a
sparsely furnished shop with only few pieces big machinery (figure 99).452 It
also produced the special recording machines that were used make master discs
in the studios
