Thomas Edison lit up the darkness at Menlo Park during the Christmas Season of 1880.
It was so amazing, the railroad had to put on extra service for all the folks flocking to the country to see the display.
Maggie talks with Dr. Paul Israel, the Director of the Thomas Edison Papers Project about Thomas Edison, his most creative time at Menlo Park, NJ and gathering the inventor entrepreneur’s five million pages of documents for the Edison Papers Project.
http://edison.rutgers.edu/israel.htm
http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm
http://www.menloparkmuseum.org
http://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm