Stocked
with every conceivable supply and led the nation's most
famous inventor, was simply "the best laboratory ever.
The lab complex makes statement about the preeminent role of
R&D industry that other laboratory duplicated. 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."
30
. 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
