Menlo Park, New Jersey the phonograph and developed a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament. Christie Street in Menlo Park was one of the first streets in the world to use electric lights for illumination. Edison left Menlo Park and moved his home and laboratory to West Orange, New Jersey in 1887. After his death, the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum was constructed near his old Menlo Park lab and dedicated in 1938. Edison's old lab site and memorial now make up Edison State Park. The municipality in which Menlo Park is located, which was called "Raritan Township" while he was alive,
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,