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Each experimental room could fitted with equipment required. all his plans for the laboratory Edison indicated that wanted his
own "private" experimental space. Each was given a
number which expenses could allocated account.
Rooms and 11.places there 1889 when complains about the elevator making too much
noise for him work experiments room ô." Fred Ott placed "in one the many experimental-rooms lining
the sides the second floor. Room was established Edison’s personal
experimental room.44 was Edison’s practice change the rooms around he
embarked new projects, although very little known the specific changes. They note
that the precision shop "the realm presided over lovingly John Ott.
43 "Deposition Charles Brown," from Thomas Edison American Mutoscope Company and
Benjamin Keith, 157.
45 Dyer, Martin, and Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions, pp.. The
two rooms situated between Edison’s room and the precision machine shop
might have been the glass blowing and vacuum pump rooms.. The
divisions between rooms were made thin wood panelling which could be
removed without too much effort. These "partitions" could used create new
spaces the need arose, enlarging reducing the floor space experimental
rooms. images plans these two rooms have been found. For example, shop order number 2140 was for taking down the partitions
in room ô. Although the
experimental rooms were primarily spaces customized for the job hand,
Edison’s plans for the laboratory show that some functions, such glass blowing
and vacuum pumping, were permanently assigned experimental rooms. The shop orders are listed some laboratory
notebooks.
Multiple doors opening into the hallway and scars the ceiling planks suggest
that the large room the south side the second floor was once several smaller
rooms numbered and The row rooms the south side the precision
machine shop could also have been altered, for there evidence the ceiling of
several partitions.
Dyer and Martin locate both John and Fred Ott the second floor.
23
. Number 2140 comes from Notebook N-09-01-21 and dates from around 1909. 647-48.[who]
oversees the work the mechanics [Edison’s] productions are wrought into
concrete shape."46
Room 12.
44 The shop orders were requests for work carried out the laboratory staff. stood the top the stairs that came from the library
on the first floor and the windows looked out onto the courtyard surrounded by
the five experimental buildings--this was the ideal place for the supervision his
experimenters’ work
