Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Edison kuma sau da yawa ya ba shi alhakin ayyukan musamman. A cikin 1879, ya tafi London don kula da ayyukan fasaha na Kamfanin Wayar Edison na Burtaniya, amma ya kamu da rashin lafiya a can kuma ya koma Menlo Park. Shekaru biyu bayan haka Batchelor, ya shigar da samfurin tashar hasken wutar lantarki don 1881 International Exposition of Electricity
a birnin Paris. Batchelor ya zauna a can har tsawon shekaru uku masu zuwa a matsayin manajan kamfanonin lantarki na Edison da aka kafa a Faransa.