Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

EDISON As I KNOW HIM
able and direct reading instruments, such as now
exist.
"Opposite this table we installed, later on, our
photometrical chamber, which was constructed on
the Bunsen principle. A little way from this table,
and separated by a partition, we had the chemical
laboratory with its furnaces and stink chambers.
Later on, another chemical laboratory was installed near the photometer room."
The present building, as we have put it up, is
about one-half made of the original wood and
one-half of new wood, but every detail has been
exactly reproduced. The original equipment has
disappeared, for Mr. Edison never bothered with
anything once he had finished with it, but we
have collected a few pieces of the originals here
and there and have managed to get duplicates of
the others. Eimer & Amend of New York, who
furnished the original chemical supplies and apparatus, searched their records and have been able
to send many duplicates. The organ at one end
has been exactly reproduced-the organ on which
Mr. Edison used to pick out tunes with one finger
while his staff sang.
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