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, Iowa Menlo, Iowa Menlo is a city in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States. The population was 353 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area. Menlo was laid out in 1869. Menlo was first called "The Switch" and then "Guthrie Switch", but it was finally renamed Menlo in order to prevent confusion with Guthrie Center. Menlo is located at (41.522461, -94.405375). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 353 people, 147 households, and