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February 11, 2015 is the 168th anniversary of Thomas A. Edison's birth on Thursday, February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. This year the 11th is on Wednesday. On his 100th birthday the day was Tuesday.
Possibly Edison's most important invention was the creation of an industrial research laboratory at Menlo Park, NJ, in 1876. Edison was 28 when he started work on Menlo Park, and 29 when he move his development work there. There is a good discussion at a website that is best accessed by doing a Google search for --- gilderlehrman edison menlo park --- the site is the first listed by Google.
For what ever reason http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/edison’s-laboratory should be the direct link, but it does not directly take you there.
More at http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/history/thomas-edison-and-menlo-park/ .
Before 1900 some of Edison's operations were merged with others to form the General Electric Co. In 1900 Edison, Steinmetz, and others founded the General Electric Research Laboratory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_Research_Laboratory .
Clrearly there are differences in the definition of a research laboratory in the above articles.
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February 11, 2015 is the 168th anniversary of Thomas A. Edison's birth on Thursday, February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. This year the 11th is on Wednesday. On his 100th birthday the day was Tuesday.
Possibly Edison's most important invention was the creation of an industrial research laboratory at Menlo Park, NJ, in 1876. Edison was 28 when he started work on Menlo Park, and 29 when he move his development work there. There is a good discussion at a website that is best accessed by doing a Google search for --- gilderlehrman edison menlo park --- the site is the first listed by Google.
For what ever reason http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/edison’s-laboratory should be the direct link, but it does not directly take you there.
More at http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/history/thomas-edison-and-menlo-park/ .
Before 1900 some of Edison's operations were merged with others to form the General Electric Co. In 1900 Edison, Steinmetz, and others founded the General Electric Research Laboratory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_Research_Laboratory .
Clrearly there are differences in the definition of a research laboratory in the above articles.
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