478
141
. "Nicoli will have your room
ready soon.
Building Room Room was set Dickson’s room and was here that
Dickson developed the motion picture camera.
The shop orders for 1907 show that Edison was still experimenting on
incandescent and fluorescent lamps and thus possible that did call the
resources these rooms.1904 photograph. This project was carried out in
great secrecy. Let Nicoli store all the stuff you don’t want and move what you want into the new room. The room was kept locked and only Dickson and his assistant,
Charles Brown, were allowed inside.
474 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp. 648-49.475
Building Second Floor Experimental Rooms, Period 1887-1900 and
Period II: 1901-1914
These rooms were devoted "physical and mechanical experiments" according to
Dyer and Martin.476 The changing experimental projects undertaken the
laboratory probably brought about changes the experimental rooms.
477 TAE Moore, August 1911 (in 1911, Phonograph-Manufacture). This room could the
one shown figure 128, ca. Partitions
were erected removed and new equipment moved in. 648-49.However, they also point out that the glass blowing and vacuum pump rooms are
"adjacent" "several others devoted physical and mechanical experiments,
together with draughting-room.1. The old experimental
material went into storage.477
Building X-Ray Room. The room contains Edison
fluoroscope, the first X-ray machine, and electrical equipment. shows one the columns and
the typical wood panelling these rooms."
478 Evidence, TAE American Mutoscope and Benjamin Keith, Legal Box 173, 138. the door was little shutter" for
communication. The X-ray room was probably one the experimental
rooms the south side the precision machine shop."474 This placement suggests that the two
rooms are the south side the building, east west room 5.
47fi Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp.
475 Shop Orders 1963 and 1973, Notebook N-99-06-24
