Menlo Park, New Jersey
Populated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US
Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States
40°33′54″N 74°20′15″W / 40.56500°N 74.33750°W / 40.56500; -74.33750
United States
New JerseyMenlo Park is an unincorporated community within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[2][3]
In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, at the time an unsuccessful real estate development named after the town of Menlo Park, California.[4] In this lab, which was one of the first to pursue practical, commercial applications of research,[5] Edison invented the phonograph and developed a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament. Christie Street in Menlo Park was one of the first streets in the world to use electric lights for illumination.[6] In 1887, Edison moved his home and laboratory to West Orange.[7] After his death, the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum was constructed near his old Menlo Park lab and dedicated in 1938. Edison's old lab site and memorial now make up Edison State Park.[8]
The municipality in which Menlo Park is located, which was called "Raritan Township" while Edison was alive, was changed to Edison Township on November 10, 1954.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Menlo Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 10, 2015.
- ^ Spies, Stacy (2001), Edison, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9780738505497
- ^ "The Origin of New Jersey Place Names", New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945, p. 20.
- ^ Gordon, John Steele. "10 Moments That Made American Business". American Heritage. No. February/March 2007. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
But even more important than the inventions themselves was the process. Laboratories in the past had mostly pursued pure research, with little or no regard for the practical applications that might flow from that research. Menlo Park was all about practical application, turning ideas into products that would have commercial potential.
- ^ Township History Archived 2016-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, Township of Edison. Accessed June 22, 2016.
- ^ Thomas Edison and Menlo Park, The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park. Accessed June 21, 2016. "In 1886, Edison started building a new facility in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1887, his laboratory moved out of Menlo Park and into the new, much larger laboratory in West Orange."
- ^ About Us, Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum. Accessed March 22, 2012.
- ^ Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography, Trenton, New Jersey, 1969. p. 170 re Edison Township, p. 173 re Raritan Township. Accessed November 20, 2016.
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- Edison Township Public Schools
- Edison High School
- J. P. Stevens High School
- Huaxia Edison Chinese School
- Middlesex County Magnet Schools
- Middlesex County Academy
- Middlesex County College
- Wardlaw-Hartridge School
- Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva
- Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison branch
- St. Thomas Aquinas High School
- BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir
- Dismal Swamp
- Edison State Park
- Exxxotica Expo
- Middlesex Greenway
- Oak Ridge Park
- Plainfield Country Club
- Plays-in-the-Park
- Roosevelt Park
- Rutgers Ecological Preserve
- Bare Necessities
- Crazy Eddie
- Gund
- Hackensack Meridian Health
- FedEx Ground
- Kam Man Food
- JFK Medical Center
- Menlo Park Mall
- News 12 New Jersey
- Oak Tree Road
- OrbitBeyond
- Raritan Center
- Zylog Systems
- Edison station
- Metropark
- Metuchen station
- NJT 800 buses
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