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, County Galway Eights Rowing in 1929 and again in 1931. Although the rowing club was disbanded some years later, a hurling club bearing the same Menlo Emmetts name was formed in 1981. This club won the County Junior B titles in 1983 and 2006. In March 2007 they went on to win the All-Ireland Junior B title by defeating Tara Rocks of Wexford 0-16 to 1-12 in a replayed final at Páirc Naomh Íde, Killeedy, Co. Limerick. Menlo, County Galway Menlo (, meaning "small lake") is a village and townland in one of the Gaeltacht areas of County Galway, Ireland. Always known