EGE commissioned many experimental
projects electricity, and Edison and Villard supported the
costs the remainder. The new company had gathered impressive range
of patents and now they had the power choose from several
different technological solutions the same problem.VI-13
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West Orange Laboratory 1890. Such was
the case with electric traction. See Sidebar 6-1, ELECTRIC
TRACTION THE LABORATORY
. The newly-installed management EGE
began cautious note, looking very carefully into the costs
of experiments before they committed themselves research at
West Orange.
Estimated Cost Experiments
BILLED TO
Edison General Electric
Edison Villard
Phonograph Companies
Ore Milling Companies
$17,045
$19,225
$20,984
$21,465
Electrical experiments accounted for the largest
expenditures research
