Edison’s small table next table should removed, for certainly was not in
the laboratory around 1910-1914.
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. Some the glassware the building present from the late rather
than early twentieth century and possible should replaced with earlier
examples. also good place show his chemical
experiments the storage battery: the electrochemical equipment his table in
the balance room was used battery experiments and serves pointer his
personal role these experiments. Instead, stress the "99% perspiration" mixing and
testing.equipment and long bottles and containers: the idea get the visitor away
from the notion that complicated assemblies glassware were the bottom of
Edison’s chemical genius.
This major piece equipment was probably made the West Orange laboratory
and this was secret project unlikely that there are detailed plans extant. See Mr. Edison very
busy and does not want disturbed.
The plan also recommends installing reproduction the sign warning visitors
away from the chemistry laboratory. The sign, hung outside the door the
laboratory early 1917, clearly warns visitors: "Keep Out.
The greatest challenge terms reproduction the condensite still table 6. Removing this table gives interpreters large
area which position the visitors and talk them.
Only one photograph, figure 34, shows what looked like and this image does not
give very much information. illustration similar still from contemporary
text has been included guide (figure 42).
We will show Edison work the balance room, rather than table and the
small table next it."611
811 See photograph 10. Mr.120/28 Edison NHS collection, not reproduced this report.
Most the equipment this plan readily available and should the
collection. For example, colored measuring marks, usually blue, found some of
the glassware are relatively modem development. Meadowcroft. Here the laboratoiy notebooks, the experimental records,
and the diaphragms illustrate the critical role played developing the
technology recorded sound