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found replace Edison's informal financing R&D. The direction the research effort was now the
hands men like Stephen Mambert, Carl Wilson, and Charles
Edison.
A scheme rationalize the laboratory was therefore
undertaken 1920. One
standardized shop order system was used which the managers
of the lab could bill work ranging from experimenting, research
and supervison the more easily billed activities tool
making, drafting, and blueprinting. The most pressing consideration was to
develop the system financing the laboratory that would
support long-term experimental work and the same time impose
financial discipline experimental expenditures.
. The new system introduced the 1920s gave much more
formal and closed structure laboratory finance. Henceforth all major experimental projects
needed the approval the Board Directors who appropriated
the funds. Changing
economic conditions meant that the Edison organization had "to
get the most out every dollar spend", especially in
experimental work
