Charles Batchelor

In 1879, he went to London to supervise technical operations of the Edison Telephone Company of Great Britain, but he became ill there and returned to Menlo Park.

It was Edison's practice to give his key assistants shares in his companies and to let them invest in the business ventures that resulted from their inventive activity.

[2] In 1887, when Edison relocated his experimental laboratory to West Orange, New Jersey, Batchelor supervised the construction of the buildings.

After the failure of the ore-refining business (in which he was a large investor), Batchelor left Edison's employ to pursue work elsewhere.

He traveled with his wife Rosanna and their daughters, worked selling securities, and eventually became president of Taylor Foundry Company.

The current Charles Batchelor Professors of Electrical Engineering are Dimitris Anastassiou and Keren Bergman.