Located in West Orange in Essex, New Jersey, site of Thomas Edison's famed campus for invention. While there were nine buildings on Edison's campus, in the gallery below is a selection of the images from the Building No. 5.
Interior of the first floor.
Interior of the first floor.
Center background shows two forty-horsepower direct-current electric motors installed in 1904 to provide power to two drive shafts for first floor machine shops.
Time clock used to record employees' work times.
To left of center is freight elevator used to move materials to the upper floors of the building. This elevator is also powered via the belts and drive shafts which operate the machine tools.
Here were stored various cutting edges and drill bits used on the machines, along with nuts and bolts, machine screws, etc.
Large loudspeaker horns and crated Edison radios from 1929.
Music Room, is used for storage of Edison phonographs.
At the center is prototype for automatic record changing device for acoustical phonographs.
Several Edison console radios and radio-phonographs from 1929.
Edison motion picture projector.
Center is 'personal equation machine' which measures and records the reflex-response time of individuals using telegraph equipment.
Images memory.loc.gov
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