When Thomas Edison finally hung up his lab coat, it still had acid burns from chemistry experiments. Added wear and tear from decades of display has compelled the National Park Service to launch a ...

In 1955, Thomas A. Edison Inc. donated the laboratory complex to the National Park Service for preservation. By 1962, the site was designated a National Historical Park that includes both the lab ...

When Thomas Edison finally hung up his lab coat, it still had acid burns from chemistry experiments carried out at the U.S. inventor's West Orange laboratory in New Jersey. Repairs helped erased ...

The commemorative plaque at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park reads. Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry at a young age, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many ...

Remembering Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. ... And you can really learn more about him in New Jersey in the Thomas Edison Laboratory Complex, which still is here in West Orange.

Edison’s close friend, Henry Ford, who bought a home next to Edison’s in 1916, removed the lab in 1926, relocating it to Greenfield Village, his history museum outside Detroit. (“Ford even ...

As twilight descended over North Jersey on Dec. 9, 1914, an explosion tore through Thomas Edison’s laboratory complex. The blast originated in the West Orange facility's film inspection building.

As twilight descended over North Jersey on Dec. 9, 1914, an explosion tore through Thomas Edison’s laboratory complex. The blast originated in the West Orange facility's film inspection building.