Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
Menlo Park in Edison NJ was the site of Thomas Edison's laboratory, where he perfected the light bulb and developed the phonograph, movie projector, and many other important inventions.
over 1000 inventions from "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Menlo Park, New Jersey
1876
His laboratory was in Menlo Park New, Jersey
Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, NJ laboratory complex and the inventions he made there are over 100 years old. When Edison built the laboratory in 1876, it was the first industrial research laboratory in the United States. Four years later, in 1880, Menlo Park looked virtually abandoned. By 1886, Edison and his entire team had abandoned the Menlo Park site. In the 1920s, Henry Ford wanted to move the old "invention factory" to his museum in Dearborn, Michigan. When Ford and Edison went to New Jersey to recover the buildings they found that most of them had been removed or had collapsed. Ford had his staff reconstruct the Menlo Park buildings from photographs and a few surviving original materials.
Menlo Park is important to the life of Thomas Edison because he worked on and patented several of his most important inventions there. Some of these inventions include:1879-the first electric motor made for 110 to 120 volt line. Located in Edison Historical Collection in NJ.1880-invented magnetic ore separator.1880-invented and installed first life-sized electric railway for handling freight and passengers
In his laboratory and workshop in Menlo Park, NJ.
Edison was nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park. Menlo Park was home to the first industrial research lab. Edison had it built for the sole purpose of a dedicated to space to produce technological improvements and inventions.
Thomas Edison worked in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
becuase thats were his work shop was and were he created his inventions