Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, also known as the Menlo Park Museum / Edison Memorial Tower, is a memorial to inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison, located in the Menlo Park area of Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The tower was dedicated on February 11, 1938, on what would have been the inventor's 91st birthday. 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
Menlo, County Galway Menlo Park in California, which was named by Denis J. Oliver and D.C. McGlynn after their native village. They constructed a wooden arch in Menlo Park, California to look like the stone archway of Menlo Castle in Menlo, Ireland. Menlo is situated on the east side of the River Corrib and south of Lough Corrib. Menlo Castle, the former home of Valentine Blake, can still be seen here. Novelist, Walter Macken, established a home here; the wooden structure is still there. The first primary level school opened in the village in 1862. Tomás Laighléis details the controversies surrounding this in