The West Orange Laboratory was the ultimate dream of a great inventor. Many legendary inventions and products came from there, like the motion picture camera, improved phonographs, sound recordings, movies with and without sound, and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery.
Inventions were developed at the laboratory, and then mass-produced in the factory buildings around it. Black Maria, the world’s first building built as a motion picture studio, was also a part of the complex.
The Laboratory grew into a huge establishment. Edison had a staff of more than two hundred in the laboratory buildings in 1912; add to this the many more employed in the factory complex that surrounded the laboratories.
During 1919-1920 the number of staff reached a peak of about ten thousand.
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