"
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. Instead broad range high tech industries,
the customers were now the division managers large
integrated corporation.it must reorganized.The development
(product) engineer must placed under jurisdiction and I
must govern his research and development activities and control
expenditures. 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.^ John Constable was forced into
selling the services the West Orange lab the divisions of
TAE Inc.. The changing structure TAE Inc. 1918 the laboratory was also carrying
out analysis for several other division^ research work the
primary battery and Amberol records, and electrical testing.
.. The laboratory Silver Lake
had begun with testing raw materials used record and storage
battery manufacture. forced the lab to
justify its existence and the money spent research. The customers the laboratory
had changed. some ways this was return the "research for
hire" strategy the 1880s.
The policy giving financial responsibility the
division managers often made them reluctant supporters R&D.XII-24
engineering division.. working exclusively articles whose sales
I control.
