Menlo Park, New Jersey Menlo Park, New Jersey Menlo Park is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, which at the time was the site of an unsuccessful real estate development named after the town of Menlo Park, California. While there, he earned the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park". The Menlo Park lab was significant in that it was one of the first laboratories to pursue practical, commercial applications of research. It was in his Menlo Park laboratory that Thomas Edison invented
Menlo F. Smith Menlo F. Smith Menlo F. Smith (born 1927) is a prominent St. Louis businessman. He has also been a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) both in St. Louis and in the Philippines. He is also a benefactor of Brigham Young University and the founder of Enterprise Mentors International now known as Mentors, International.. Smith was born in St. David, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Utah. He is the founder of the Sunmark Corporation. During the 1980s, Smith served as president of the LDS Church's Philippines Baguio Mission. There he saw many