It
encompassed the mixing, heating, and electrical testing numerous combinations
of chemicals.100
100 Louis Republican, July 1899.
Experiments the composition the wax cylinder for the Edison phonograph
began soon the West Orange laboratory opened and continued into the
twentieth century.
The twentieth century started with two ongoing experimental projects the
laboratory books: the development waxes for phonograph records, and the
investigation substances that emitted X-rays.C.
Many new workers joined Building during Period experimenters the
storage battery campaign.Building 2
The work this laboratory the 1880s was centered two projects: insulation
for electric wires and the cylinder record for phonographs.101
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.brought great challenge to
Edison’s chemical laboratory because the blockade Germany cut off supplies of
chemicals required the production batteries and records.
This laboratory often gave work college students during their summer
vacations.
The storage battery and disc record projects dominated work Building before
World War However, the coming war 1914. Edison claimed have two
German chemists working the latter project 1899. The storage battery experimental program was
primarily chemical investigation find the combination chemicals required in
a battery not employing the lead acid technology that other companies used to
dominate the market. This brought several young chemistry majors West Orange, among
them Asian worker named G. Lee. They tried cadmium,
magnesium, and nickel lighter and more efficient alternatives for the lead of
the storage battery. The insulation project
was part Edison’s electrical research and was transferred from his temporary
laboratory Harrison West Orange soon the new laboratory opened. Building was
therefore devoted finding substitutes these strategic materials, and Edison
and his experimenters did well that Thomas Edison Inc. was able sell the
surplus chemicals profit.
101 University Illinois TAE, February 12, 1920, Biographical Collections. Edison was looking for alternative and directed years of
experiments several teams working this building
