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

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Although Edison certainly had the knack seeing commercial product laboratory phenomenon, was out his depth sales and usually looked to his backers organize marketing. The financial relationships that Edison created, tried . Money was all could give this project for had little industrial experience and was not good businessman. Alfred Tate concluded that the attempt dominate this industry cost him both his fortune and his life.11-13 Edison was able build financial relationship with one venture capitalist support massive R&D effort the phonograph. He bought Edison's interest the phonograph and provided funds throughout the years work produce commercial machine."^ The financiers the motion picture venture were also entrepreneurs the lookout for profitable new businesses. They were much different from the Wall Street investors who supported the electric light; Edison's biographer Matthew Josephson describes them "speculators, backers race track entries or 20 theatrical shows" These attributes were useful the promotion the kinetoscope. Jesse Lippincott had made his money the manufacture glassware, and had become interested in establishing monopoly the new talking machine business. His funds ran out well before the phonograph venture began return a profit and died 1891. Norman Raff and Frank Gammon were gamblers who saw new industry the flickering images the kinetoscope