Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory "Glass House," Menlo Park, New Jersey

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Artifact Overview

Originally built as a photographic studio and drafting room, the glassblowing shop was fundamental to Edison's enterprise. Edison's incandescent lighting experiments ensured that the laboratory had a voracious appetite for glass -- not only for bulbs but also for associated apparatus such as vacuum pumps. Ludwig Boehm, the laboratory's first master glassblower, worked here -- and lodged in the attic space.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.512

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.00 in
Width: 10.00 in

Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory "Glass House," Menlo Park, New Jersey