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- Letter from Thomas Edison to His Parents, May 9, 1870 -
- May 09, 1870
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Letter from Thomas Edison to His Parents, May 9, 1870
- Samuel Edison Jr. outside Edison Residence, Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1893 - In 1854, when Thomas Edison was seven years old, his family moved from Milan, Ohio, to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison left the area and struck out on his own in the mid-1860s, but his family stayed. This photograph shows Edison's father Samuel in front of a house located in Port Huron. The structure was later erroneously cited as Edison's boyhood home.
- circa 1893
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Samuel Edison Jr. outside Edison Residence, Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1893
In 1854, when Thomas Edison was seven years old, his family moved from Milan, Ohio, to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison left the area and struck out on his own in the mid-1860s, but his family stayed. This photograph shows Edison's father Samuel in front of a house located in Port Huron. The structure was later erroneously cited as Edison's boyhood home.
- Edison Homestead - Thomas Edison's great-grandparents fled to Canada after the American Revolution because they had sided with the British. Edison's grandparents started a farm and built this home there. As a boy, Edison enjoyed visiting the farm, where he played in the barn, went swimming, and fished in a nearby river.
- circa 1816
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Edison Homestead
Thomas Edison's great-grandparents fled to Canada after the American Revolution because they had sided with the British. Edison's grandparents started a farm and built this home there. As a boy, Edison enjoyed visiting the farm, where he played in the barn, went swimming, and fished in a nearby river.
- Letter from Thomas Edison to His Parents, October 30, 1870 -
- October 30, 1870
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Letter from Thomas Edison to His Parents, October 30, 1870
- Drawing of Edison Homestead at its Original Site in Vienna, Ontario, Canada, 1898 -
- 1898
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Drawing of Edison Homestead at its Original Site in Vienna, Ontario, Canada, 1898
- Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey, 1880-1881 - 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.
- 1880-1881
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Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey, 1880-1881
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.