The 1904 and 1914 images (figures and 93) also depict
objects counter tops and the floor, and this rather sloppy appearance is
reinforced the Dicksons* 1894 description: general and totally unclassifiable
litter trade devices lying loosely around. Adding a
light fixture east the third column would make all parts this area visible to
the visitor.
S3S Dickson and Dickson, The Life and Inventions Thomas Edison, 292.
834 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison; His Life and Inventions, 647. The north side the room, the rear, gets lots sunlight. light this
area adequately all lights must operational and reflectors must clean. Cleaning
the windows would improve visibility this area. The electric motor (EDIS 759) and the power hacksaw
(EDIS 3369) installed near the column this area should removed. The 1939 photographs reinforce this look but should remembered
that the process using the laboratory repository for junk had begun well
before the 1930s. 1904 image
shows fence installed top the counter (figure 92). Large deliveries
to the stock room were probably made there, rather than through the machine
shop library entrances.
Subject recommendation conservator, installation bulbs slightly
higher wattage than the watts now use will bring more light. while pickaxes,
saws, coffee-mills, wheelbarrows, ladders and what not bewilder our limited visual
scope.suspended from the ceiling with only safety mesh around them."635 The furnishings plan for the stock room recommends that limited
amounts supplies stored the floor and strewn across counters reflect
what seems have been typical appearance disarray Edison’s stock room. The furnishings plan
recommends that items such office supplies, record books, and calendar be
added the serving hatch area illustrate the presence the stock clerk who
was "kept exceedingly busy all day answering the numerous and various demands
upon him.
In the 1890s, the counter visible figure may have been set for distribution
of stock. The scale, note spindle, and memo books lying the low counter top
suggest that during the period this photograph was taken (sometime before 1895),
stock was distributed over the counter directly into the hall area. Note that the
hallway door across from the gate opens onto Lakeside Avenue.. sanguinary meat chopper impedes
our path one direction and ice cream freezer another. likely that this
time the service hatch was used dispense stock.
The stock room present full, with items the floor, tables, and on
counters."634
The 1914 photograph this area (figure 93) shows padlocked gate the fence,
as well new counter and moveable work benches installed the hall, is
clear that stock was not distributed through the fence this time.
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