Search results
Menlo Park is an unincorporated community within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, at the time an unsuccessful real estate development named after the town of Menlo Park, California.
Visit the site of Thomas Edison's historic Menlo Park lab and see original artifacts, phonographs and the Edison Memorial Tower. Enjoy a guided tour, a nature trail and a gift shop at this museum and state park in New Jersey.
- Young Edison
- Menlo Park
- Post-Menlo Park Years
- GeneratedCaptionsTabForHeroSec
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...
Learn about the life and inventions of Thomas Edison, the most prolific inventor in history, and his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Discover how he created a process of modern invention and developed devices in telegraphy, electric power, sound, and more.
- 37 Christie Street Edison, NJ, 08820 United States
- tecmp1879@gmail.com
- (732) 549-3299
Learn about the history and inventions of Thomas Edison at his former laboratory in Edison, NJ. Find out how to book tickets, hours, directions, parking, and accessibility for your visit.
- 37 Christie Street Edison, NJ, 08820 United States
- tecmp1879@gmail.com
- (732) 549-3299
Apr 21, 2019 · Learn about the history and achievements of Menlo Park, the first industrial research laboratory where Edison and his team created the phonograph, the light bulb, and more. Find out why Edison was called \"the Wizard of Menlo Park\" and how the place became a tourist attraction.
- Mary Bellis
People also ask
Where is Menlo Park NJ?
What is the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park?
What to do in Menlo Park?
What was Menlo Park like?
In spring of 1876, Thomas Edison and a handful of collaborators moved from Newark to Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison’s team of about a dozen workers based their scientific investigations in...
The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, also known as the Menlo Park Museum / Edison Memorial Tower, is a memorial to inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison, located in the Menlo Park area of Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The tower was dedicated on February 11, 1938, on what would have been the inventor's 91st birthday.
