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Thomas Edison

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    Just Added to Our Digital Collections: Vagabonds Photos

    We’ve just digitized dozens of photos of the elaborate camping trips of Vagabonds, a quartet including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, businessman Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs.
  • Inside Menlo Park
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    Five Questions with... Rich Sheridan, Entrepreneur in Residence

    Get insights from Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller of Menlo Innovations, and The Henry Ford's second Entrepreneur in Residence.
  • THF164030 / Seashells, Collected by Thomas Edison, Fort Myers, Florida, circa 1885
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    Thomas Edison, Innovator and Beachcomber

    We've just digitized shadowboxes filled with seashells collected by inventor Thomas Edison in Fort Myers, Florida.
  • Time Card Punched by Thomas Edison at His West Orange Laboratory, for the Week Ending August 27, 1912 (THF108331)
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    Inspiration in the Thomas Edison Time Cards

    Take a look at time cards punched by American inventor Thomas Edison, showing 90-, 100-, and even 110-hour workweeks.
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    Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory

    Learn how Henry Ford rebuilt and recreated Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory on the grounds of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
  • THF155100 / Bouillon Cup in Tudor Rose Pattern, 1912-1919
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    Just Added to Our Digital Collections: Vagabonds China

    We've just digitized the early 20th century Tudor Rose china used by the "Vagabonds"—friends Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs—on their wilderness camping trips.
  • THF116064 Filming a Laser Show at Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village for ABC-TV's World of Discovery, May 25, 1989
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    Laser Beams Over Menlo Park

    Learn the story — and see other-worldly pictures — of a fantastical 1989 laser light show at Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village.
  • Inside Menlo Park
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    Thomas Edison: Inventor AND Chemist

    This weekend, members of the American Chemical Society will be joining staff from The Henry Ford to designate Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in Greenfield Village a National Historic Chemical Landmark.
  • Three gravestones beginning to fall over
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    Associated with an Icon

    We have just digitized over 50 images related to Greenfield Village's Edison homestead, the Canadian farmhouse owned by Thomas Edison’s grandparents, on its original site.
  • thf125222 A scene from the 1940 motion picture, “Young Tom Edison,” starring Mickey Rooney. THF125222  spencertracy Spencer Tracy portrayed the inventor in the film, “Edison the Man,” released later that same year. THF58062
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    Thomas Edison Goes Hollywood

    How did Greenfield Village play a pivotal role in the production of two classic films about Thomas Edison?