the years between the Menlo Park and West Orange
laboratories Edison's base was never far from machine shop,
firstly Bergmann's factory Manhattan, and then the
Lamp Works Harrison, New Jersey. Edison's
style inventing and management was influenced the machine
shop culture had absorbed Newark. This
laboratory impressive three-story building with Mansard
roof.6
shows that was thinking about structure that would reflect
his new prestige great inventor and man substance. Wherever moved, he
made sure that his experiments were done close machine
shop.
The first industrial research labs were established German
chemical companies carry out testing and basic research, and
. These and
later sketches always depict laboratory based a
manufacturing facility called "shop". His first labs were machine shops. The machine shop was
central Edison's method inventing for was here that
his ideas were made into experimental models. During his
years the telegraph industry Edison had grown accustomed to
inventing this machine shop environment, where the tools and
skilled machinists were always hand turn ideas into
working devices. The tower and courtyard are its two distinctive features
(which are often found the large textile mills Newark),
and these give the dignity public building.
Another fixture Edison's method was chemical
laboratory. The development industrial research was closely
associated with the advancement the science chemistry
