Edison, New Jersey Township in Hunterdon County. In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in New Jersey on the site of an unsuccessful real estate development in Raritan Township called "Menlo Park", (currently located in Edison State Park). While there he earned the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park." Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1,093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent light bulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric
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