The Edison Memorial Tower Corporation unveils conceptual plans for a new education facility at the historic Thomas Edison site in Menlo Park. Preliminary sketches of a new education center, which ...

On Oct. 1, 1880, Thomas Alva Edison manufactured the first commercially produced electric light bulb in his 2 1/2-story laboratory and machine shop in the then-rural hamlet of Menlo Park.

The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park recognizes the inventor, whose lab was there during the time of his most famous invention.

Stross's clear-eyed biography will show readers why, even at the end of the 20th century, Edison remains, outside the U.S., the best-known American ever. DETAILS share BUY THIS BOOK ...

Edison's New Jersey LabNPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Stanley, director of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum in Edison, N.J., the site of the lab where Thomas Edison and his colleagues ...

Kathleen Carlucci, Museum Director, said, “The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park is so proud to be hosting our third annual tree lighting this year. We’re so excited that part of it is that ...

Object Details correspondent Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 addressee Fabbri, E. P. active 1880 former owner Lende, H. W. Jr. DSI Author H.W. Lende, Jr. Manuscript Collection (Smithsonian ...

While Chevrolet hasn’t officially commented on the car, the name echoes that of the town where Edison lived and set up his first laboratory, Menlo Park, N.J. Interestingly, Ford has a division ...

From Pennsylvania Station, take the train to the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park to learn about the inventor’s highly productive (1,093 patents) life. By Julie Besonen ...