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 of $26,071 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $9,475. There were 25.0% of families and 17.6% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64. School unification consolidated Menlo, Rexford and Selden schools forming USD 316 Golden Plains. The Golden Plains High School mascot is Bulldogs. Menlo High School was closed through school unification. The Menlo High School mascot was Menlo Tigers. Menlo, Kansas Menlo is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 61. Menlo