Fessenden’s career the West Orange laboratory provides revealing look at
work Edison’s laboratory, especially the practice training men new fields
and the great versatility required the experimenters the nineteenth and early
twentieth century.104 These men may
have worked their project Building 2.
104 Edison Botanic Research Corporation Report Stockholders January 15, 1932.A.)
105 Hugh Aitken, The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932, (Princeton;
Princeton University Press, 1985). Prince, Jr.103
102 Notebook N-29-08-30."106 Fessenden
then managed get job assistant tester electrical cables for the Edison
Machine Works. This table was Edison’s last permanent
work space the chemistry laboratory before died. After completing his college work applied for job with
Edison, but was unsuccessful because after several years higher education he
did not know anything practical about electricity, and Edison said, have
enough men now who not know anything about electricity.
A report the Edison Botanic Research Corporation January 1932 stated that
the employees involved the company’s experiments were: Fred Ott, Charles
Dally, C. Prince, his son C. Edison’s assistants these experiments were George
Hart and F., and Banta. Personnel employed corporation are contained appended list.1927 Edison began work his last experimental campaign--a project find a
domestic source rubber. Fessenden was one Edison’s laboratory staff who
made name for himself inventor and entrepreneur. arriving West Orange, Fessenden was given several odd jobs around
the site, such wiring new rooms.
Reginald Fessenden.A.102 Edison worked Building the
small table next table the north end the building.S.2. rose the position inspecting engineer and engineer
of the Machine Works, Fessenden got the opportunity the main laboratory
at West Orange. The Edison Machine Works kept some its men the
laboratory work experiments related its product line, paying the men’s
wages. The small table had
been put there sometime during the war. Fessenden’s name is
most closely associated with his pioneering efforts develop continuous wave
radio transmission.
108 Paul Kasakove interview, 1971, Oral History Project, 18. "D-Box" Collection -
Rubber. (The "D-Box" collection
contains correspondence Edison from prominent individuals. Specimens from all over the country were collected and
brought West Orange.
108 Reginald Fessenden, "The Inventions Reginald Fessenden," Radio News (June 1925), 218.
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music with radio waves, which successfully accomplished 1906. Schimerka (figure 38)
