Employees Standing outside Menlo Park Laboratory at its Original Site, Edison, New Jersey, circa 1880

THF116568 / Employees Standing outside Menlo Park Laboratory at its Original Site, Edison, New Jersey, circa 1880

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1880

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.P.O.5791

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park Photographic prints Photographs Employees Innovators Laboratories Men Research facilities Original sites Menlo Park Laboratory (Dearborn, Mich.) Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

Artifact
Menlo Park Laboratory
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.