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Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park. Welcome! Visit our well-appointed museum and enjoy a fully escorted tour. You’ll see original artifacts, listen to 120+-year-old Edison Phonographs, and enter the 1938 Edison Memorial Tower.
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Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in the town of Milan, Ohio.1 His parents, Sam and Nancy Edison, were of Canadian origin and had six children prior to Thomas, only three of whom survived. Edison’s family moved to Port Huron, Michigan in 1854. Throughout his childhood, Thomas Edison was full of curiosity about how things worked and a...
Menlo Park was one of the six neighborhoods that formed Raritan Township. It was a very sparsely populated rural area and the site of a failed residential development in the early 1870s. Edison purchased two parcels of land measuring approximately 34 acres from the family of William Carman who was one of his employees at Newark, in late 1875. The o...
[By the early 1880s] Edison felt the need to be closer to where the business was in New York City, and his operations were quickly outgrowing the existing facilities at Menlo Park. The family moved into a house at 25 Gramercy Park in New York City but spent their summers in the Menlo Park home.15 On August 9, 1884 Edison’s wife, Mary, died of typho...
- 37 Christie Street Edison, NJ, 08820 United States
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Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, 37 Christie Street, Edison, NJ, 08820, United States (732) 549-3299 tecmp1879@gmail.com
- 37 Christie Street Edison, NJ, 08820 United States
- tecmp1879@gmail.com
- (732) 549-3299
Oct 9, 2021 · The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, located in Edison State Park, is a facility dedicated to educating the public on the life and achievements of Thomas Edison, as well as focusing on his notable accomplishments that took place at Edison’s Menlo Park lab.
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