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

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This department grew into the Engineering Test Service department. did not have the same close relationship with Edison enjoyed by Hutchison. Kennedy graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic with degree in electrical engineering.M.; see Laboratory notes.277 He was dismissed the end 1920.278 W. The Engineering Test Service department functioned testing facility for amusement and business phonographs, records, and diamond points.H.Constable worked designing phonographs and working out the steps their mass production. His expertise was soon applied the West Orange laboratory where was quickly placed in control kinetophone filming: certainly wasted lot the old man’s money making rotten pictures first. 280 Ibid. Harvey. 278 Memo 1918, WOL-Experimental Work; Monthly Record Reports, Engineering test Service department, 1918, WOL-Experimental Work."279 Kennedy developed improvements to kinetophones, film projectors, and film cans. Kennedy Papers, University Alabama Tuscaloosa Special Collections. F. This department had heavy work load which probably justified this large staff through the mid-1920s.280 80 . the time was hired Edison was chief engineer for the American Talking Picture Company New York. In 1917 went with Edison Long island carry out anti-submarine experiments and left his employ soon after. testing department had been created around 1914 carry out neutral tests, which were supposed the unbiased evaluation piece of work someone who had connection it. experimented with film lighting. Edison, Inc. Hutchison thought that the job chief engineer had evolved from engineering and experimental work primarily clerical and administrative tasks, complaining that ’’seems resolve itself into issuing engineering notices on screws, nuts, bolts, gears, etc. 277 See his history the Engineering Department, undated and unauthorized, 1919, Thomas A. W. During his tenure chief engineer, Constable fought unsuccessful battle against the steady erosion his power and his independence action. Povah had replaced him 1918. A. Harvey was the first director the new Engineering Service department.”276 276 MRH TAE, November 1913 (in 1913, WOL-General). 279 Recollections, A.S. Kennedy. had an assistant and staff nine people