Thomas Edison

Since the 19th century, Florida has been the winter home of prominent northerners looking to escape harsh weather. One of the most famous of these “snow birds” was inventor Thomas Edison, who first visited Ft. Myers from New Jersey in ...

National Historic Landmark-Thomas Edison Birthplace

National Historic Landmark- Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace

This small brick cottage was the birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), one of America's most illustrious inventors.

Although he left here in 1854, Edison cherished the memory of this house; in 1906, he ...

Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison

(1847-1931)

One of America's most prolific and important inventors, Thomas Alva Edison was born in this house in 1847. Designed by his father, Samuel Edison, a shingle maker by trade, this small gabled brick cottage was built in 1841. Though the ...

Thomas Edison’s West Orange Laboratory

The Invention Factory

In the fall of 1887, Thomas Edison moved into his new laboratory complex in the town of West Orange, N.J. For the next 44 years Edison directed teams of research assistants in his “Invention Factory” and created a ...

Thomas A. Edison Industries

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

Thomas Edison was not just an inventor – he was a businessman running an industrial empire. Around the laboratory, Edison built large factories where thousands of employees mass-produced his inventions for the public. Edison understood the ...

Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower

Plaque 1:

This tower marks the site of the experimental laboratory built by Thomas Alva Edison, born Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847. The laboratory structure occupied by the inventor from 1876 to 1886, was transported in 1929 by his friend and ...

Thomas Edison Arrived at Schenectady

At this site Thomas Edison arrived at Schenectady Aug. 20, 1886 to found his Machine Works which in 1892 became the General Electric Company.

Marker is on State Street (New York Route 5), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Thomas Alva Edison Menlo Park Memorial

On this site

1876—1882

Thomas Alva Edison

Began his work

of service for the world

to illumine the path of progress

and

lighten labor for mankind.

This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers to attest the gratitude of the industries he did so much to create.

Dedicated Menlo ...