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Menlo Park

 
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A district of Edison, New Jersey, southwest of New York City. A memorial tower marks the site of the laboratory where Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb in 1879.

 

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Menlo Park Uninc. residential community, Middlesex co., central N.J., in Edison township. It is the site of Edison Memorial Tower and state park, where Thomas Edison kept his laboratories (1876-1887). Buildings associated with the laboratories were moved to or replicated at Greenfield Village Museum at Dearborn, Mich. Menlo Park developed into a suburban community after the end of World War II.

 
 

 

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