Edison, New Jersey Township in Hunterdon County. In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in New Jersey on the site of an unsuccessful real estate development in Raritan Township called "Menlo Park", (currently located in Edison State Park). While there he earned the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park." Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1,093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent light bulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric
Menlo, County Galway Menlo, County Galway Menlo (, meaning "small lake") is a village and townland in one of the Gaeltacht areas of County Galway, Ireland. Always known as Mionloch in Irish and later Anglicized as Menlo; some older maps spell this townland of Galway as Menlough. Thomas Campbell Foster spells it Menlow. Menlo is both a village and townland name and is in the Parish of Castlegar, County Galway, Ireland. The village retains some of the characteristics of the clachan form which is more evident in Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps of the 19th century. In his "Letters on the Condition of