. The experimental room conceived Edison was a
long (75 feet) room filled with tables.
A galvanometer room for electrical testing also figures
in the plan, evidence that Edison intended his new laboratory
to fully equipped carry out electrical work, especially
on his incandescent lamp.9
everything needed for invention hand. Edison decided that this inconvenience
would not hinder him the new lab and subsequently planned to
erect forge and furnace the ground floor." The notebooks would left the tables to
be picked whenever idea needed recording the results of
. This included the
facilities make large metal parts, such castings for
dynamos, which had usually been made outside the laboratory
because their size. glass blower's room included in
this plan and subsequent sketches show vacuum pump room;
Edison planned complete facility devoted research and
testing electric lights.., and some that have never been sketched, tried,
or described. Also placed these tables would the
experimental notebooks which each experimenter would record
the progress his work. each table would be
experimental apparatus and the models stages of
construction.
The upstairs this planned laboratory contain the
experimental rooms where the work invention was be
carried out. Edison had begun using notebooks in
the formative days Newark, envisaging them daily
record containing ideas previously formed, some which have
been tried,
