. relied on
several experimental projects running simultaneously to
generate least one commercial success. The experiments
underway the laboratory gave him another chance recover
the fortune expended "Edison's folly" (as the Press called
it) Ogden. The policy diversification gave him the means to
overcome the disastrous losses ore milling.VI-29
The shortage money forced Edison return the
laboratory. The development work the kinetoscope had
reached such point 1894. The essence of
this idea was move from one experimental area another in
the hunt for the elusive breakthrough, the highly profitable
new idea that could refill Edison's treasury
