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

| Kategorie: Kniha  | Tento dokument chci!

Vydal: Neurčeno

Strana 56 z 567

Vámi hledaný text obsahuje tato stránku dokumentu který není autorem určen k veřejnému šíření.

Jak získat tento dokument?






Poznámky redaktora
The operating costs the laboratory alone were around $80,000 per annum— considerable sum the 1880s when the deflation of Q the Great Depression gripped the American economy. The profits from electric lighting were held Edison's bank account with Drexel Morgan. Throughout 1888 and 1889 this was continually depleted pay for the establishment the West 7 Orange complex. Edison also assumed the costs building and equipping the Edison Phonograph Works." After making the initial investment the laboratory Edison still needed steady flow cash maintain large work force and cover the day-to-day expenses R&D. The first source finance for the lab were the .II- 5 tempered the continual demands financial need: its growth and evolution influenced Edison's search for operating funds. Buying fine house and building great laboratory, equipping with supplies and hiring the labor probably cost Edison close half million dollars the end of 1888. Edison's strategy for his laboratory was grand one and was the financial burden he had carry: "The Lord only knows where get the O shekels— Laboratory going awful pull me. Edison hoped avoid using his own money operate the laboratory, declaring that "it part the inventor furnish m was Edison's intent cover all the costs the laboratory selling its experimental services. Edison quickly spent the fortune made electricty