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The lab complex makes statement about the preeminent role of
R&D industry that other laboratory duplicated. Stocked
with every conceivable supply and led the nation's most
famous inventor, was simply "the best laboratory ever. There was doubt the minds the men
making their way West Orange the fall 1887.1-30
laboratory Schenectady, anonymous offices corporate
headquarters, and machine shops corners large factories. the
driving force great industrial concern, and the center of
an international industry that was creating the second
industrial revolution, the Edison laboratory stood alone the
nineteenth century
