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- Menlo Park Laboratory Complex during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- April 01, 2003
- Collections - Artifact
Menlo Park Laboratory Complex during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Thomas Edison's Laboratory in 1880 in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and in 1984, Reconstructed in Greenfield Village -
- 1880 and 1954
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Thomas Edison's Laboratory in 1880 in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and in 1984, Reconstructed in Greenfield Village
- "Mute Relics" Sign Used in Greenfield Village on an Early Exhibit Case outside Menlo Park Laboratory -
- circa 1930
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"Mute Relics" Sign Used in Greenfield Village on an Early Exhibit Case outside Menlo Park Laboratory
- Menlo Park Compound Construction Site in Greenfield Village, January 1929 - In 1928, Henry Ford commissioned a painstaking reconstruction of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory for Greenfield Village. Researchers referenced photographs and reminiscences from Edison's early employees, and crews incorporated salvaged materials and original structures from the laboratory's long-abandoned New Jersey site. Construction was completed by October 1929, when Ford dedicated his museum and village as the Edison Institute of Technology.
- January 28, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
Menlo Park Compound Construction Site in Greenfield Village, January 1929
In 1928, Henry Ford commissioned a painstaking reconstruction of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory for Greenfield Village. Researchers referenced photographs and reminiscences from Edison's early employees, and crews incorporated salvaged materials and original structures from the laboratory's long-abandoned New Jersey site. Construction was completed by October 1929, when Ford dedicated his museum and village as the Edison Institute of Technology.
- Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1911 -
- circa 1911
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1911
- Panorama of Menlo Park Compound Construction Site, Greenfield Village, 1928-1929 - In 1928, Henry Ford commissioned a painstaking reconstruction of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory for Greenfield Village. Researchers referenced photographs and reminiscences from Edison's early employees, and crews incorporated salvaged materials and original structures from the laboratory's long-abandoned New Jersey site. Construction was completed by October 1929, when Ford dedicated his museum and village as the Edison Institute of Technology.
- 1928-1929
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Panorama of Menlo Park Compound Construction Site, Greenfield Village, 1928-1929
In 1928, Henry Ford commissioned a painstaking reconstruction of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory for Greenfield Village. Researchers referenced photographs and reminiscences from Edison's early employees, and crews incorporated salvaged materials and original structures from the laboratory's long-abandoned New Jersey site. Construction was completed by October 1929, when Ford dedicated his museum and village as the Edison Institute of Technology.
- Illustration, "Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of 1879" - 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. This illustration depicts Menlo Park in winter 1879, when Edison first demonstrated his experimental lighting system.
- 1879
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Illustration, "Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of 1879"
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. This illustration depicts Menlo Park in winter 1879, when Edison first demonstrated his experimental lighting system.
- Menlo Park Compound in Greenfield Village, December 1929 -
- December 20, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
Menlo Park Compound in Greenfield Village, December 1929
- Spreading Clay Soil Brought from New Jersey over the Menlo Park Compound in Greenfield Village, 1929 -
- 1929
- Collections - Artifact
Spreading Clay Soil Brought from New Jersey over the Menlo Park Compound in Greenfield Village, 1929
- Thomas Alva Edison Statue Relocation Site during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, March 2003 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- March 01, 2003
- Collections - Artifact
Thomas Alva Edison Statue Relocation Site during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, March 2003
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.