Laboratory Assistants Working in Thomas Edison's Laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880
THF236792 / Laboratory Assistants Working in Thomas Edison's Laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880
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Artifact Overview
The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1880
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
P.O.17031
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
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When Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in spring of 1876 the laboratory building contained his entire operation -- a handful of collaborators, office, library, and machine shop as well as laboratory. As the scale of Edison's investigations grew so did the complex, but this building -- dedicated to experimental activities -- was always understood to be the heart of the enterprise.
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