Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 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

1880

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.O.5765

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Mounting

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 6.5 in
Width: 8.5 in

Inscriptions

Formerly glued to mat with caption: First blue print photograph made at Menlo Park in February, 1880. Top, from left: George Crosby, George E. Carman, Albert B. Herrrick, Francis Jehl, Edison's Father, Charles B. Mott, John W. Lawson and Ludwig K. Boehm. Middle row, seated: Charles Batchelor, Marion Edison, EDISON, Thomas A. Edison, Jr., Charles T. Hughes and William Carman. Bottom row: William Holzer, James Hipple and George Hill.
Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880