.The development
(product) engineer must placed under jurisdiction and I
must govern his research and development activities and control
expenditures.. forced the lab to
justify its existence and the money spent research. 1918 the laboratory was also carrying
out analysis for several other division^ research work the
primary battery and Amberol records, and electrical testing.XII-24
engineering division. The changing structure TAE Inc. The laboratory Silver Lake
had begun with testing raw materials used record and storage
battery manufacture. working exclusively articles whose sales
I control..it must reorganized.. was
no longer the sole source engineering and R&D for the Edison
complex and had compete with other laboratories for testing
and chemical analysis business. The customers the laboratory
had changed.^ John Constable was forced into
selling the services the West Orange lab the divisions of
TAE Inc. Instead broad range high tech industries,
the customers were now the division managers large
integrated corporation."
The division managers wanted direct the product
engineer's work with financial rather than engineering
criteria.
Its manager hoped take over some the electrical testing
work done West Orange.
The policy giving financial responsibility the
division managers often made them reluctant supporters R&D.. some ways this was return the "research for
hire" strategy the 1880s
