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. the door was little shutter" for
communication.476 The changing experimental projects undertaken the
laboratory probably brought about changes the experimental rooms.
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.477
Building X-Ray Room. shows one the columns and
the typical wood panelling these rooms."
478 Evidence, TAE American Mutoscope and Benjamin Keith, Legal Box 173, 138.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. The room contains Edison
fluoroscope, the first X-ray machine, and electrical equipment. The room was kept locked and only Dickson and his assistant,
Charles Brown, were allowed inside.
Building Room Room was set Dickson’s room and was here that
Dickson developed the motion picture camera.
475 Shop Orders 1963 and 1973, Notebook N-99-06-24.1.
474 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp. 648-49.
47fi Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp. The old experimental
material went into storage. "Nicoli will have your room
ready soon."474 This placement suggests that the two
rooms are the south side the building, east west room 5. 648-49.
477 TAE Moore, August 1911 (in 1911, Phonograph-Manufacture). The X-ray room was probably one the experimental
rooms the south side the precision machine shop. This project was carried out in
great secrecy. This room could the
one shown figure 128, ca. Let Nicoli store all the stuff you don’t want and move what you want into the new room.478
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. Partitions
were erected removed and new equipment moved in.1904 photograph
