is
possible that this department worked Building the 1930s, which was the
base dictating machine experiments the 1920s.G. The open coffin the former Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, governor New Jersey, and head Thomas Edison, Inc.668 These two engineers
wrote the Ediphone development reports throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Its role the development the Ediphone product also unclear, but appears
555 Illustrated photograph 14. Charles F.666 Although insufficient for the army, the machine
tools the shops were still used during the war and some women workers trained
on them. Foley S. was placed
before the fireplace, just his father’s had been.
This department produced steady stream innovations and was the only
experimental effort carried out the West Orange laboratory during the 1930s. Foley, February 1943, Historical Research Dept.S.J.E.
858 Frank'J.
857 S. Again, the coffin was flanked
with flowers and palms; the only additions the scene were the American and
U. Larchar, November 19, 1942, Historical Research Dept.310/110, Edison NHS collection, not reproduced this report.F. new desk Ediphone was produced 1937,
the work Louis Forest and Charles Huenlich.
858 The Combined Executive and Secretarial Ediphone, February 25, 1932; Laforest S. Navy flags placed behind the coffin.667
Building General
Ediphone Development.
165
.666
Building Machine Shops
During World War the machine shops and boiler house were used train
women war workers and Army Air Force Training Detachment. possible that rooms the second and third floors
became the home the dictating machine research and development department.Mourners paid their last respects Charles Edison the library Edison’s
laboratory August 1969.
Engineering Department References this department were made the
1930s and 1940s, but clear picture its organization function has emerged. In
1932 new line dictating machines was introduced, which incorporated the
latest dictating machine technology. This was
found unsatisfactory arrangement because the machine tools were old,
and operated such slow speeds, that they did not prepare the machinists for
work modern factory. Langley,
1937, Ediphone Development Reports
