Interesting older pics of Edison's West Orange facility

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Interesting older pics of Edison's West Orange facility

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A little quirky to navigate but I like the pictures of multiple uprights stacked against each other, crated radios etcetera. Reminds me a bit of home. :monkey:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4OzxdC/ww ... op/238805/
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I don't know how I missed these at the Lyeberry of Congress site!

Go to http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/NJ1222/ and find 93 of 'em - and you can download HUGE detailed copies.

(Funny seeing it called "in Essex"; I suppose that's the county. Amd why are NJ municipalities so itsy? Seems like you walk 1 mile in any direction & there's another place: Orange, South Orange, West Orange, East Orange! )
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These are great. Remember me posting about going to the Edison National Historic Site in the 70's and finding it "the land that time forgot?" These pics remind of it , although it was a bit more " public friendly" than these pics show and of course we couldn't see the third floor. That pic of the room with the phonograph parts has a diamond disc recording lathe in the left foreground.
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