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. Many the
early research laboratories were closely connected machine
shops and factories.1-21
Edison's from their days telegraphers.". Weston's factory Newark was the host
institution for his laboratory. 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. Precision
machine tools occupied the bulk the room, which also
contained electrical instruments. This duplicated (on much smaller scale)
the facilities Edison had erected West Orange. The electrical inventor Charles
Brush worked machine shops Cleveland's telegraph
industry.. Thomson's
laboratory was called the "model room" because its function was
to produce experimental devices and patent models.to refined and immediately put into
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manufacture. Gilliland soon left
the organization join with Edison, and his place was
taken Hammond Hayes, one the first Phds physics
granted Harvard.. With few tools and perhaps
one two workmen," Thomson labored produce "devices and
new appliances. The inventor Edward Weston constructed a
two storey laboratory next attached his home Newark
