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

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44,472), "Miscellaneous 1937-1940," Scrapbook Collection.lesser cast small products such spark plugs and medical gases. These managers naturally wanted control research and development their products and soon set their own laboratories.S. 512 "Minutes Executive Committee Meeting," May 12, 1920, 1920, WOL-Financial. Edward Hughes (Mina Edison had remarried), Charles Edison and Theodore Edison, December 15, 1938, Historical Research Dept. and each division had its own laboratory and its own production engineering staff. Edison" the struggle obtain research dollars within the organization. 513 Norman Speiden interview, June 1973, Oral History Project, 1. The management was ready branch into whatever products could keep its men at work. 515 C.513 The picture emerging the laboratory the 1930s one group buildings almost empty people but full objects: boxes documents and old files, machinery and "historically interesting equipment," cans film, magazines and books, and anything that might have come into contact with the great man.616 When Edison died the response his family and some devoted members his laboratory staff was preserve things that had been associated with him. Williams Mrs. 511 Scrapbook (cat. While Edison was alive looked after the interests his West Orange laboratory and ensured that got the funds continue work. This 155 . Thomas Edison, Inc was made several factories New Jersey: Bloomfield, New Village, Kearney, Silver Lake, and West Orange. that "the laboratory under the special protection Mr. 24-hour watch was established over the silent buildings the West Orange laboratory and special pass was required gain entrance.514 The laboratory was described having the atmosphere necropolis. Edison’s family closed the facility and its employees went into the laboratories and factories the various divisions. The problem for the West Orange laboratory was that each these products was made separate division Thomas Edison, Inc., Reports and Correspondence relating the History the Edison Laboratory from 1935 1949.612 With Edison dead, money for research immediately reverted the divisional laboratories. 1920 there were signs rivalry between these divisional laboratories and the central laboratory West Orange.511 Policy introduced 1915 established modem divisional structure the Edison enterprise and had given each division manager freedom develop his own product. was understood within Thomas Edison, Inc. 514 "Historical Department Progress Report," February 11, 1936, Historical Research Dept