. This light bulb burned for two days. He was now able to turn on and off lights in his laboratory. These new light bulbs were first installed on the ship “Columbia”. Edison soon thought of a way to light many lights at one time. He set up the worlds first electrical company in New York. The Edison Electric Light Company sent electricity to houses and lamps (Josephson 382). He soon built a bigger invention factory in West Orange, New Jersey. This laboratory was ten times bigger than his factory in Menlo Park. This laboratory had fourteen buildings. Six of those buildings were used for inventing. The main building was the size of three football fields. Many of the shops were used for electrical testing, glassblowing, electrical power generation, and chemical stockrooms. Over five thousand people worked in this lab and Edison attempted to manage this large staff. Edison walked through the huge building every single day. But he spent much of his time doing paperwork instead of experiments. He did his paperwork in the library of the West Orange Laboratory. The library was also used for a trophy room. Edison received many awards during his life. The motion picture camera also came out of the West Orange Laboratory. Edison connected the phonograph with the motion picture camera. He could now produce motion pictures with sound. Sometimes at the lab they tried mixing chemicals that seemed foolish, some of these were coffee, eggs, sugar, milk, whalebone, turtle shell, elephant hide, and the hair of a person. It is also a rumor that Edison had the eyeballs of a US senator in one of his storerooms. The human hair was used for a wig on the first talking doll. In the dolls chest was a tiny phonograph speaker. Sadly, the West Orange Laboratory burned to the ground in nineteen-fourteen. Edison took the loss calmly, saying “All of our mistakes have been destroyed”. He also said, “In a new factory...
