Edison National Historic Site
- Edison National Historic Site
Infobox Protected area
name = Edison National Historic Site
iucn_category =
caption =
locator_x = 252
locator_y = 65
location = Essex County, New Jersey, USA
nearest_city = Newark, New Jersey
lat_degrees = 40
lat_minutes = 47
lat_seconds = 02
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 74
long_minutes = 14
long_seconds = 00
long_direction = W
area = 21 acres (0.08 km²)
established = September 5, 1962
visitation_num = 11,663
visitation_year = 2003
governing_body = National Park Service
The Edison National Historic Site preserves Thomas Edison's laboratory and residence, "Glenmont", in West Orange, New Jersey. For more than forty years, the laboratory had a major impact on the lives people worldwide. Out of the West Orange laboratories came the motion picture camera, improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery.
The area was designated as Edison Home National Historic Site on December 6, 1955 and was redesignated as Edison Laboratory National Monument on July 14, 1956. On September 5, 1962, the 21 acre site once again became a United States National Historic Site overseen by the National Park Service. In 2002, the group "They Might Be Giants" released a song called "The Edison Museum" about this site.
Except for "Glenmont", the Edison National Historic Site is currently closed to visitors due to major rehabilitation work on buildings within the site. This project was expected to be completed sometime in 2007, but as of August 2008 the laboratory is still closed. The site is located about 5 miles (8 kilometers) west of Newark, New Jersey, just off of Interstate 280 on Main Street.
ee also
*Edison's Black Maria
External links
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nj0052 Glenmont, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, Essex County, NJ: 31 photos, 13 drawings, 12 data pages] , at Historic American Building Survey. Note numberous other HABS photo sets available for outbuildings and Edison's laboratories, also ( [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhquery.html Search HABS here] ).
* [http://www.nps.gov/edis/ Edison National Historic Site]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/25edison/25edison.htm "The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories," a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan]
* [http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/parks/1246 Maps & Weather] - Unearthed Outdoors
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