A HISTORY OF EDISON'S WEST ORANGE LABORATORY 1887-1931

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Yet terms of quality and quantity staff, Edison's laboratory could not compare with the front rank and AT&T industrial research. 1926 had dropped below $150,000— one tenth GE's costs. GE's laboratory Schenectady, for example, had a staff around 300 1920, including about scientists and engineers. the other hand, the expenses Edison's laboratory decreased. Despite the decline the work force during the purges of the 1920s, the West Orange lab was still major important research facility. There were several laboratories that had smaller staffs and budgets. During the 1920s, research expenditures and AT&T rose steadily. Western Electric's Research Branch had 234 employees 1921, many whom were Phds and professional engineers. . The "best lab ever" was now a shadow its former stature the leading research institution the United States. Eastman Kodak, for example, increased the staff its laboratory from 1913 in 1920.XIII-27 of the amusement phonograph, but the work force the West Orange laboratory 1920s was relatively untrained and underqualified when compared with other industrial research laboratories. the early 1920s the West Orange laboratory employed around 200 men, yet only about them were . Its work force and expenditure that year, $338,680 55 were much less than the Edison laboratory. 54 formally trained