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

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This three-story building was constructed around inner courtyard. 277-79. The site was located rural landscape that was considered a resort area many inhabitants New York City and Newark. Edison’s plan was turn this pastoral setting into dynamic industrial center, place crowded with factories and laboratories and thousands workers. Edison’s plans for his West Orange laboratory reveal that had more mind than utilitarian work place commercial buildings.. When Edison died 1931, West Orange was major manufacturing center, industrial community full his factories.. wrote, "My ambition is build great industrial works the Orange Valley, starting small way and gradually working up.HISTORICAL DATA OVERVIEW CONSTRUCTION AND HISTORICAL USE THE STRUCTURES In the early 1880s Thomas Edison began planning the construction laboratory that would the largest and best equipped industrial research facility the world. Glenmont was fine Victorian residence situated exclusive residential estate.’’2 The inventor was able turn this dream into a reality during his lifetime. The place chosen for this complex was the Orange valley New Jersey where the newly married Edison had purchased house 1886. January 1887, he acquired large parcel land Orange just down the road from his house in Llewellyn Park. wrote his diary: ’’Edison’s idea now for the future get up processes for manufacture and start factories. His associate, Charles Batchelor, was told this scheme while the laboratory was being built. 1887, pp. A 11 . May 1887, he retained the services Henry Hudson Holly, the prestigious residential architect who designed Glenmont, design the laboratory.Immediately the new laboratory is finished these will commenced earnest."1 1 Charles Batchelor diary, catalog 1336, Sept.3 Edison’s own sketches the proposed laboratory, executed some time 1886, show imposing structure in the beaux arts style that was fashionable for government buildings that time (figure 2). With the profits his electric lighting system hand, Edison was now position embark upon even more ambitious venture-a research and development facility that would not only create new products but would also refine and perfect their production factories built next the laboratory. The success his Menlo Park laboratory had proved him that was possible regularize the process invention and produce stream commercial innovations. 2 Thomas Edison (hereafter cited TAE), Hood Wright, November 1887, Notebook N-87-11-15. 3 Charles Batchelor diary, catalog 1337, May 1887