It was soon time for another major move. In 1876, Edison shifted all his firms in Newark to Menlo Park, a small village to the southwest of New York City. His family and assistants were with him, too. An impressive establishment soon came up at Menlo Park. It had a main laboratory building built by Edison’s father, a glass house, a carpenter’s shop, a carbon shed and a blacksmith’s shop.
Another novelty of the place was a research and development laboratory. It had all the equipment needed to work on any kind of invention. The first of its kind anywhere, it later became the model for many modern facilities that came later, like the Bell Laboratories. In fact, some people consider it as Edison’s greatest invention!
Soon, Menlo Park became the legendary place where many of Edison’s major inventions were born. With him were a number of brilliant assistants, who had come to live in America from various parts of the world. Inspired by Edison’s passion for hard work, the whole team would often stay up all night working on the project at hand.
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