The shop’s machinery was driven belts and lineshafts located beneath the floor. These were used draw
noxious chemical fumes from the building.
13 Notebook N-89-00-00.16 Although machine shops
were almost always powered overhead shafts and belts, running lineshafting
below the floor was common practice woodworking operations because it
allowed long pieces stock maneuvered around the shop. Edison
National Historic Site," prepared Melvin Weig and Norman Speiden, (1961), 5-6, Appendix 4.
These were powered single direct current (DC) electric motor which received
its current from the dynamos located Building 6. Chemicals were stored Building the main stock
room, and rooms 10, and the second floor Building 5.
Building differed from Buildings and that had eight interior
chimneys along its two long walls, four each side.
14 TAE Hood Wright, November 1887, Notebook N-87-11-15. His contemporaries would have been
more likely run steam line from the boiler house across the courtyard a
small stationary steam engine the pattern shop. The front part Building was reserved for general storage and the
storage bulk chemicals.13
The rear half Building was equipped pattern shop.
15 TAE Batchelor, (summer, 1887] (in 1887, WOL-General, D-87-55).
12 National Park Service, "Historic Structures Report, Part I-Chemical Laboratory, Building No. envisaged "the Laboratory supplying the perfected invention(s) models
pattem(s) and fitting necessary special machinery the factory for each
invention. This was certainly not the only storage facility the
West Orange laboratory.being divided into three spaces, which could accounted for the presence of
the interior brick room. Edison’s grand strategy for the laboratory was use refine the
process mass production the new products coming from the experimental
rooms."14 The patterns were made this shop.11
11 Fessenden, "The Inventions Reginal Fessenden," Radio News (August 1925) 156. Using electric
drive probably had much with Edison’s desire show off the new
technology any practical considerations. This shop had the
important task making the foundry patterns used cast parts machines
which were going installed the factories built next the laboratory
buildings.
14
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Building The plan for this building shows neatly divided into two equal
parts
