EDISON LABORATORY Edison National Historic Site West Orange, New Jersey Volume 1

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boilers continued supply steam the laboratory buildings until around 1914- 1915 when steam was piped from the Works. even more. The phonograph product had been the basis the prosperity Thomas Edison, Inc.508 508 Edison Phonograph Monthly, January 1916, 9. 509 MRH TAE, February 1914 and July 1914 (in 1914, Automobiles).509 1917 automobile battery charging station was installed in Building part the project develop electrical systems for Ford motor cars. Horner John Constable, 1917 Thomas Edison, Inc. Even in decline the 1920s the revenue from phonographs and records had been an important source income for both laboratory and company. Into this space went one Edison’s automobiles and the automobile motors used test lighting equipment devised Building 1914 Hutchison reported Edison that this equipment was taking all the room this space. Thomas Edison, Inc. 510 Mr. The Great Depression had already begun when Edison died and reduced the declining business Thomas Edison, Inc. and had been a foundation the West Orange laboratory the twentieth century. The boilers and steam plant this building were removed make another garage. With the phonograph gone, the laboratory and Works were deprived major function. continued with the manufacture radios, dictating machines and batteries. The records small laboratory basically concerned with production engineering were not deemed important enough preserve. Only the dictating machine and batteries remained viable products through the 1930s, supported 154 .610 THE POST-EDISON YEARS: Period IV: 1932-1962 Historical Occupancy and Furnishings The activities the laboratory the years after Edison’s death are not well documented the West Orange site. The collapse Edison’s phonograph business 1929 was nearly great a disaster the laboratory the death its leader. The fame and prestige the great inventor were responsible for the accumulation documents and for the publication of memoirs and accounts his life. financial accounts, Engineering Department files. With Edison dead there was reason be interested the remnants his laboratory and what was doing the 1930s and 1940s