Thomas Edison in West Orange Laboratory, 1925

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Artifact Overview

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison poses in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory where he directed teams of research assistants for nearly fifty years -- from 1887 until his death in 1931. More than half of Edison's 1,093 patents resulted from the collaborative work done in this complex, which became a model for modern research and development laboratories.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1925

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1630.P.188.9597

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 6 in
Width: 4 in

Thomas Edison in West Orange Laboratory, 1925