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.477
Building X-Ray Room. The room was kept locked and only Dickson and his assistant,
Charles Brown, were allowed inside. "Nicoli will have your room
ready soon.1. The X-ray room was probably one the experimental
rooms the south side the precision machine shop.
47fi Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp."
478 Evidence, TAE American Mutoscope and Benjamin Keith, Legal Box 173, 138. Let Nicoli store all the stuff you don’t want and move what you want into the new room. This room could the
one shown figure 128, ca. 648-49. Partitions
were erected removed and new equipment moved in.1904 photograph.
Building Room Room was set Dickson’s room and was here that
Dickson developed the motion picture camera. shows one the columns and
the typical wood panelling these rooms. This project was carried out in
great secrecy. 648-49.
477 TAE Moore, August 1911 (in 1911, Phonograph-Manufacture).478
141
. The room contains Edison
fluoroscope, the first X-ray machine, and electrical equipment.
474 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp. the door was little shutter" for
communication. The old experimental
material went into storage.
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.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."474 This placement suggests that the two
rooms are the south side the building, east west room 5.
475 Shop Orders 1963 and 1973, Notebook N-99-06-24.476 The changing experimental projects undertaken the
laboratory probably brought about changes the experimental rooms
