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- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1865 -
- circa 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1865
- Thomas Edison, Charles Batchelor, and Uriah Painter with Edison's Phonograph, April 18, 1878 - While in Washington, D.C., for an 1878 presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, inventor Thomas Edison, his lab assistant Charles Batchelor, and Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Uriah Painter sat for famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. They posed with Edison's phonograph, a new invention that could, for the first time, record and reproduce sound. The machine made Edison an overnight celebrity.
- April 18, 1878
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Edison, Charles Batchelor, and Uriah Painter with Edison's Phonograph, April 18, 1878
While in Washington, D.C., for an 1878 presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, inventor Thomas Edison, his lab assistant Charles Batchelor, and Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Uriah Painter sat for famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. They posed with Edison's phonograph, a new invention that could, for the first time, record and reproduce sound. The machine made Edison an overnight celebrity.
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, "First Photograph Made with Incandescent Light," 1880 -
- 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Charles Batchelor, "First Photograph Made with Incandescent Light," 1880
- Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880 - 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.
- 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880
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.
- Thomas Edison with His Laboratory Assistants, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Edison with His Laboratory Assistants, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880
- Pioneers of Electricity - We’ve just finished digitizing 132 photographic portraits of electrical pioneers associated with the same companies as the objects we’re digitizing from our electrical distribution collections through an IMLS grant.
- July 19, 2016
- Collections - Article
Pioneers of Electricity
We’ve just finished digitizing 132 photographic portraits of electrical pioneers associated with the same companies as the objects we’re digitizing from our electrical distribution collections through an IMLS grant.
- Bucket -
- Collections - Artifact
Bucket
- A “Pocket-Sized” Possibility for the Future - Explore the story of the “Pocket Radio” manufactured by the Auto Indicator Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and learn how it fits into the history of radio and audio entertainment.
- October 20, 2020
- Collections - Article
A “Pocket-Sized” Possibility for the Future
Explore the story of the “Pocket Radio” manufactured by the Auto Indicator Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and learn how it fits into the history of radio and audio entertainment.