Research Funding

Edison: R&D was cheaper back then

Thirty institutions reporting the largest FY 2012 R&D expenditures in all fields: NSF Data (Millions of dollars)
	All institutions	$61,257
	Leading 30 institutions	$24,458
1	Johns Hopkins U. a	2,004
2	U. MI Ann Arbor	1,184
3	U. WI Madison	1,029
4	U. WA Seattle	1,023
5	U. CA San Diego	943
6	U. CA San Francisco	936
7	Duke U.	983
8	U. CA Los Angeles	937
9	Stanford U.	840
10	Columbia U. in the City of New York	807
11	U. NC Chapel Hill	755
12	U. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh	822
13	U. PA	836
14	U. MN Twin Cities	786
15	MA Institute of Technology	677
16	Cornell U.	750
17	Harvard U.	583
18	PA State U.  University Park and Hershey Med Ctr	770
19	OH State U.	755
20	U. CA Berkeley	694
21	U. CA Davis	680
22	Washington U. St	696
23	U. FL	682
24	TX A&M U. College Station	690
25	GA Institute of Technology	616
26	U. TX M	600
27	Yale U.	624
28	Northwestern U.	575
29	U. AZ	587
30	U. Southern CA	593

^a Johns Hopkins University includes Applied Physics Laboratory, with $1,121 million in total R&D expenditures in FY 2012.

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf14303/