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, Kansas Menlo, Kansas Menlo is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 61. Menlo was located on the Union Pacific Railroad as it existed at the time. The rail line subsequently moved south, and the tracks through Menlo have been removed. A post office was opened in Menlo in 1888, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1992. Menlo is located at (39.356117, -100.724339). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010,