The eminent electrician Elihu Thomson carried out
experiments and devised new equipment "model room" the
Thomson-Houston factory Lynn, Massachusetts.. It
contained machine shop, room for electrical research, and a
chemistry laboratory. Gilliland soon left
the organization join with Edison, and his place was
taken Hammond Hayes, one the first Phds physics
granted Harvard. Thomson's
laboratory was called the "model room" because its function was
to produce experimental devices and patent models. Precision
machine tools occupied the bulk the room, which also
contained electrical instruments. With few tools and perhaps
one two workmen," Thomson labored produce "devices and
new appliances.1-21
Edison's from their days telegraphers. The inventor Edward Weston constructed a
two storey laboratory next attached his home Newark. This duplicated (on much smaller scale)
the facilities Edison had erected West Orange.to refined and immediately put into
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manufacture.
The triumph the incandescent light proved that there
was money made invention, and the years after 1879
several electrical laboratories were established private and
corporate concerns. Weston's factory Newark was the host
institution for his laboratory.. Many the
early research laboratories were closely connected machine
shops and factories. The electrical inventor Charles
Brush worked machine shops Cleveland's telegraph
industry."
