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 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