Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower
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2008-06-29
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The tower marks the location of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory, the world's first organized research and development site. He came to Menlo Park in 1876. The area was then known as Raritan Township, and later changed (in 1954) to Edison Township. Menlo Park is known as the Birthplace of Recorded Sound (November 1877), and the site of the world's first practical incandescent lamp-light bulb (October 1879). Edison and his staff would create 400 of his most important inventions here. It was this site that Edison would fondly nickname his 'Invention Factory'.
The tower's pinnacle is meant to represent an incandescent light bulb.
The Tower, which rises 131 feet above the Terrace, is topped by a 13' 8" foot high Bulb made of Pyrex segments by the Corning Corporation.
The sphere atop the tower had been called the "world's largest light bulb", however, in 2021, a larger light bulb, 17� tall and 10� in diameter, was installed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the plaza in front of the Cox Business Convention
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Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower, Thomas Edison, Menlo Park, Edison, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, New Jersey State Park., Middlesex County, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, Central Jersey Region, THe Garden State
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