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Menlo Park Laboratory
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village and Cutler, Edward James, 1882-19611929
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
When Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey in spring of 1876 the laboratory building contained his entire operation -- a handful of collaborators, office, library, and machine shop as well as laboratory. As the scale of Edison's investigations grew so did the complex, but this building -- dedicated to experimental activities -- was always understood to be the heart of the enterprise.
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- Title: Menlo Park Laboratory
- Creator: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Cutler, Edward James, 1882-1961
- Date: 1876/1883
- Date Created: 1929
- Location: United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
- Subject Keywords: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, Menlo Park Laboratory (Dearborn, Mich.), Inventions, Electric lighting, Laboratories, Buildings (Structures)
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=179489
- Object Name: Laboratory
- Object ID: 29.3048.1
- Image ID: THF1973
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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