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.
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Thomas A. Edison Papers | A project that narrates Edison’s life and work through his documents
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Thomas A. Edison Papers | A project that narrates Edison’s life and work through his documents
Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park
Enjoy a fully escorted tour, view historic artifacts and inventions, and listen to original phonographs at the site of Thomas Edison’s world-changing Menlo Park lab.
Thomas Edison National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Today, the brick buildings on Main Street in West Orange, NJ seem quiet, betraying little evidence of the research, development, and innovation of their heyday. Visitors can step back in time to Thomas Edison’s home and laboratory, when machines were run by belts and pulleys and music was played on phonographs.
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