1919
he reviewed the activities the lab and concluded that was
"mostly routine work," adding that would personally attend
to the development work with his present staff of
experimenters. but were
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The implementation financial controls after 1911
created division between the short-term engineering services
and the long-term experimental and development work carried out
by the lab.XII-27
campaign should made "Edison family affair," supported
from the treasury TAE Inc." This split the R&D effort
mirrored the situation other companies organized around
several manufacturing divisions. Edison. the basic engineering
work was carried out each divisions, while Kettering and his
team worked entirely new technology separate
laboratory., and not from the budget the
Dictating Machine Division. the years that followed Edison took over the
basic research that did not have immediate payoff. John Constable stated 1919 that "the only
experimental work know now carried out under the direct
supervision Mr. Edison still kept his personal finances
separate from the corporate finances TAE Inc. The chemical
plants, for example, were not part TAE Inc. 55
Before the divisional policy, the support basic
research and development had not created problems. Edison was,
in fact, spending his own money and the lack adequate
financial controls had enabled him experiment without
counting the cost
