Obtaining supplies needed experimental project was very important part of
Edison’s method inventing. The screen itself was installed some time before April 1895 (figure 50)
and may have been used for lantern slide projection experimental use early
motion picture projectors before the projection booth was installed. Edison the inventor was always man hurry
because experience had taught him that the first produce innovation was
often the one who made the money from it.
37 Thomas Edison Hood Wright, November 1887, Notebook N-87-11-15. stream purchase
orders began flow from West Orange and soon loads equipment and supplies
began arrive the laboratory. The 1929 edition Dyer and Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, Volume II, with the
collaboration William Henry Meadowcroft will hereafter the edition referenced throughout this report. stock room was established
on the first floor Building between the library and machine shop. 640-45.the south side the first balcony sometime between 1910 and 1912.
36 The booth visible figure 64, 1912 photograph Lueder, but not mentioned Dyer and
Martins’ thorough 1910 description the library; Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin,
Edison: His Life and Inventions, Vol. Now that was man substance, Edison could afford equip his
laboratory with everything that might possibly required the course his
inventive activities.
Building Heavy Machine Shop
Batchelor and Edison spent many hours browsing through the catalogues of
machinery manufacturers and chemical supply houses. Edison equipped the two machine shops from a
variety sources. The point doing this was reduce the amount time
spent waiting for supplies, and Edison claimed the "inventions that formerly took
months and cost large sum can now done days with very small
expense. (New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1910),
pp. was
positioned serve both machine shops and was fitted with dumb waiter and an
elevator take supplies the second and third floors.36 The
booth floor-to-ceiling wooden enclosure with framed windows for projection,
facing screen suspended over the fireplace from beams supporting the second
balcony.
Building Stock Room
The stock room was vital part the laboratory and was included, one form or
another, all Edison’s plans for the new facility. The patent office’s system of
emphasizing precedence invention was powerful incentive speedy
innovation. Some tools came directly from their manufacturers, others
20
