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- "Map Showing Location of Edison Buildings at Menlo Park, N.J.," circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
"Map Showing Location of Edison Buildings at Menlo Park, N.J.," circa 1880
- Menlo Park Carpentry Shop - Edison employed skilled woodworkers to make models, miscellaneous components, and patterns for making metal castings -- a great example of the importance of traditional craft to Edison's experimental investigations. The carpentry shop also housed machinery for making gas, used in the laboratory's Bunsen burners and -- prior to his success with electric lighting -- for lighting the complex.
- circa 1879
- Collections - Artifact
Menlo Park Carpentry Shop
Edison employed skilled woodworkers to make models, miscellaneous components, and patterns for making metal castings -- a great example of the importance of traditional craft to Edison's experimental investigations. The carpentry shop also housed machinery for making gas, used in the laboratory's Bunsen burners and -- prior to his success with electric lighting -- for lighting the complex.
- "Map Showing Location of Edison Buildings at Menlo Park, N.J.," circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
"Map Showing Location of Edison Buildings at Menlo Park, N.J.," circa 1880
- Portrait of Charles William Moffett, 1870-1890 -
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Charles William Moffett, 1870-1890