Menlo Park Carpentry Shop
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Artifact Overview
Edison employed skilled woodworkers to make models, miscellaneous components, and patterns for making metal castings -- a great example of the importance of traditional craft to Edison's experimental investigations. The carpentry shop also housed machinery for making gas, used in the laboratory's Bunsen burners and -- prior to his success with electric lighting -- for lighting the complex.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Workshop (Work space)
Subject Date
circa 1879
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Built in Greenfield Village in 1929. Replica of the original 19th century building.
Location
at Greenfield Village in Edison at Work District
Object ID
29.3048.4
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Wood (Plant material)
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