EDISON LABORATORY Edison National Historic Site West Orange, New Jersey Volume 1

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Building First Floor Charles Batchelor. His domain was the first floor Building but more than likely that had experimental tables other parts the laboratory and would have spent great deal his time the Phonograph Works. had produced hearing aid, invented the electric klaxon horn159, and was the process developing automobile self-starter and tachometer for warships when first visited the West Orange laboratory.158 157 Fessenden, "The Inventions Reginald Fessenden," Radio News 156. Bom the north England, Batchelor was sent install machines the Clark thread mills Newark, New Jersey, met Edison, and never returned home. During the early 1890s appears have concerned himself with running one the ore milling concerns and travelling. In 1890 Batchelor went extended trip Europe and the western part the United States. 158 Ibid. Miller Reese Hutchison. They worked together several experimental projects, staying all night just Edison had done the old days. "Hutch" and the "old man" became inseparable. master metal working, could handle any job--from casting parts dynamo fitting the fragile experimental filaments into incandescent bulbs. Bom and educated the South, Hutchison had considerable success independent inventor before came work West Orange. According one the laboratory staff, Batchelor was the "sometimes needed, conservative element the combination," ideal counterbalance the mercurial Edison who often got involved an experimental project that forgot everything else. unlikely that spent much time the West Orange laboratory during this period, and retired the mid-1890s. His neat, well-organized notebooks reveal orderly mind and a precise hand. After the West Orange laboratory opened 1887, Batchelor was overall charge the machine shops and ran the laboratory Edison’s absence. 159 Obituary Miller Reese Hutchison (hereafter MRH), New York Times, February 18, 1944.157 had been Edison’s side since joined the inventor’s work force 1871. quickly ingratiated himself into the good favor Edison and spared effort in cultivating the great man. Batchelor was experienced factory management and played important part in setting the first Edison Phonograph Works factory, constructed brick, adjacent the laboratory complex Lakeside Avenue 1888. Hutchison became chief engineer the laboratory in 54