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Edison at Menlo Park

Six views showing Edison at Menlo Park

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Six views showing Menlo Park and exterior of Edison's laboratory, and electric light apparatus

Six views showing Menlo Park and exterior of Edison's laboratory, and electric light apparatus

Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 10
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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