The history the utility industry the 1890s
proved him right: the motor load was responsible for improving
the load factors central stations and saved many from
extinction. all the electrical
technology that passed over the experimental tables West
Orange, Edison chose develop the small electric motor,
beginning the design 1/2 h. terms the money spent research, the West
Orange laboratory was still primarily electrical laboratory
in the 1890s. Electricity was the important thread that ran
through all the experimental projects— electromedicine,
phonograph, kinetoscope, and ore milling. motor. Edison had little success with traction motors and he
could not afford the costs developing such large-scale
electrical systems. The electric motor
played the major role Edison's conception commercial
electrical supply system, providing the profits that were not
in lighting.VI-17
work continued transformers, alternators, rotary converters,
rectifiers, and a/c meters. The small motor, the
other hand, was cheap and easy produce and had wide array
. Only the fully-integrated "trusts," like
General Electric could manage that.
The West Orange laboratory had attended the design of
all sizes electric motors, from the large traction models in
streetcars the smaller motors used power consumer
durables. Despite the estrangement over the
formation General Electric, the electrical industry
maintained its position the single largest customer the
laboratory.p
