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 College provided the funding necessary to convert the Menlo College Dining Commons into the present-day library (Curtis 1984, p. 28). The Princeton Review named Menlo College a "Best in the West" college in their "2019 Best Colleges: Region by Region." U.S. News & World Report has also named Menlo College a "Best Regional College." Menlo College was also recognized as one of the "US News & World Report Best Colleges for Veterans." In 2014, Menlo College earned Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation, a distinction earned by less than five percent of the world's business schools. Menlo College