The shift in
engineering responsibilities from the Works the lab is
revealed the number employees who were taken from the
Works payroll and transferred the lab. Yet the clearer definition their duties
led realization that they should managed the chief
engineer rather than the Works superintendent. Engineers like Doc
Halprin had always been Works employees the years the
creation TAE Inc. The
music room was the site experiments connected with recording
techniques and the testing phonographs and reproducers. It
was under the control Clarence Hayes who was also
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the staff the laboratory who were involved production
engineering.
Chart 10-2 shows the organization the laboratory. Adolph Gall, for example, was moved from the Motion
Picture Division the lab 1917 and given the job of
production engineering for phonograph reproducers. They were
the remnants the nineteenth century Edison laboratory. The Experiment and Development
organization included the management the laboratory's
machine shops, the music room, and Edison's personal staff. The divisional policy was reflected the
creation service departments the laboratory. They were
therefore transferred the lab staff the new service
departments. The
drafting, tool design, and testing departments were part the
Engineering Service, which also included the construction and
maintenance departments. Other engineers were brought from the
divisions. The
latter were the "muckers” experimenting with Edison
