Edison cleaned up
his affairs 1894, withdrawing from many honorary posts and
cutting back his personal expenditures.K. During one month 1894 (May), the labor cost for
work done the phonograph was less than $100, Edison’s
personal experiments cost $460 and ore milling labor cost was
over $1000.
48) Electrical Engineer, 18, nov 1894, p.a.-46
36) Tate Van Dyck, Feb 1894, 930808, p.
47) Description kinetograph Dickson Century Magazine, and
Dickson Meadowcroft, May 1921, Biog files. Lewie, March 1894, 931030, 98.
Dickson, April 1928, Motion picture; Edison caveat.
40) Brief Epitany (Sic— this could "Epitamy") all
Facts relating .
. Total cost the months work was $2883, which
GE paid $911. range the beginning the decade.
38) Electrical World..K. Billbook #12, 469.
45) Terry Ramseye, Million and One Nights (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1926), 68. The amount work
done the lab declined significantly during the 1893/1894
depression. L.
42) The history the celluloid film strip told Reese V
Jenkins, Images and Enterprise (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press,
1975), chap Eastman set laboratory 1890, its purpose
was testing, (p.668; and Open
Door; TAE Elliot, March 1894, 931030, 109; TAE to
E.H. Research expenditure for
1893 probably did not excede $25,000— much less than the
$75,000-$80,000 p. 147).
Dickson, Box D.
39) ’
’
Some Facts relating Moving Photography" W. VII Jan 1886, 26; experiments are
in Notebook 871210.Invention the Kinetograph" W.
44) Dickson’s version his Century magazine article..2.
46) Patent 589,168, filed Aug 1891. L.
41) Brown’s testimony Edison American Mutascope Co,
Complainants record, 143, 173.377.
37) Edison Caveats motion pictures are the appendix of
Hendricks, Motion Picture Myth; Dickson’s article Century
Magazine, 48, June 1894.
43) This recollection from Albert Smith, Reels and Crank
(New York: Doubleday, 1952), cited Hendrick’s Motion Picture
Myth, 171
