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the secret project Glen Ridge. Ott was also to
make drawings the plating apparatus (for duplicating) Al
Wurth's instructions. examined the properties phenolic resins which
could moulded heat and pressure. This was the work Jonas Aylsworth, who was
charged with finding harder compound for discs. Aiken the Phonograph Works. Miller was make all the experimental
master records for was the recording expert the West
Orange laboratory. short distance away
. assistant to
Weber, Aiken was fully experienced production engineering
q
and running "gang" workers.L. This group was under the
leadership F. Wurth had been
working cylinder duplication since the 1880s and was
again charge producing the moulds from which records were
to duplicated. Although a
Works employee, Aiken had been heavily involved designing
phonographs and later received patents them. Working at
his house Orange, where had fully equipped lab,
Avl«=worth experimented with compounds that could moulded
into shape. Ott was old associate Edison who had
been mucker since the Newark days, working closely with the
inventor phonograph development.
Another vital part this project was done outside the
laboratory. His work had been devoted examining
recording techniques and managing the Edison recording studios
at West Orange and later New York City. used familiar
experimental team: Walter Miller was design the disc
recording machinery for John Ott execute
