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Menlo Park Glass House, Original Site, Edison, New Jersey, 1878-1886
1878/1886
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Originally built as a photographic studio and drafting room, the glassblowing shop was fundamental to Edison's enterprise. Edison's incandescent lighting experiments ensured that the laboratory had a voracious appetite for glass -- not only for bulbs but also for associated apparatus such as vacuum pumps. Ludwig Boehm, the laboratory's first master glassblower, worked here -- and lodged in the attic space.
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- Title: Menlo Park Glass House, Original Site, Edison, New Jersey, 1878-1886
- Date: 1878/1886
- Location: United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
- Subject Keywords: Menlo Park Glass House, Buildings, Research facilities, Glass blowing and working, Glassblowing, Drafting, Original sites, Photographic prints, Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: P.ECP.93
- Inventor: Thomas Edison
- Image ID: THF17464
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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