Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880
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The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1880
Keywords
United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.5765
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.5 in
Width: 8.5 in
Inscriptions
Formerly glued to mat with caption: First blue print photograph made at Menlo Park in February, 1880. Top, from left: George Crosby, George E. Carman, Albert B. Herrrick, Francis Jehl, Edison's Father, Charles B. Mott, John W. Lawson and Ludwig K. Boehm. Middle row, seated: Charles Batchelor, Marion Edison, EDISON, Thomas A. Edison, Jr., Charles T. Hughes and William Carman. Bottom row: William Holzer, James Hipple and George Hill.
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