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perfection every detail.
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Although the function the laboratory had moved from the
driving force the Edison enterprise the 1880s an
advisory role the 1920s, still played important part
in quality assurance. Their work was monitored chief inspector and he, in
turn, was under man from the laboratory, who double checked
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the checkers and tested small sample the daily output. Phonograph mechanisms, for example, were tested
by staff inspectors special room the Phonograph
Works. But even when the "old man" was long gone, the
engineering organization guided for long continued work
in his image: "The Engineering Department represents Mr." The process of
testing and quality assurance had become long and complex
one." the 1920s Edison was no
longer around approve every machine leaving the laboratory
for the Works. But normally was engineer from the main lab who had
the last word. Edison
in safeguarding the standards quality
