Thomas Edison had created the first industrial laboratory concerned with creating knowledge and then controlling its application. Edison's name is registered on 1,093 patents. Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him wider notice was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," New Jersey. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder. Despite its limited sound quality and that
Menlo Park Terrace, New Jersey Menlo Park Terrace, New Jersey Menlo Park Terrace is an unincorporated community located within Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located off U.S. Route 1 in between Menlo Park Mall and Woodbridge Center. It is a residential suburban neighborhood with an ethnically diverse population, a fire station, and Menlo Park Terrace School #19, which services grades K-5 under the direction of Principal Margret Truppa. Menlo Park Terrace is located off exit 130 off the Garden State Parkway, and can be seen along the parkway heading southbound. It houses one of the U.S. missile storages Residents