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Menlo Park

Edison's home, Menlo Park

Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey

Edison's complex at Menlo Park, showing house, laboratory, office and machine shop.

sketch by Theo. R. Davis
Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, in 1876. This site later become known as an "invention factory," since they worked on several different inventions at any given time there. It was there that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
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