REMINISCENCES OF MENLO PARK Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Reminiscences of Menlo Park, Part One. “This replica of the Edison Laboratory of 1879 will stand through future generations in silent salute to -- Thomas A. Edison.” Exterior views of the laboratory. “Today Francis Jehl is the only survivor of that group of men that assisted -- Thomas A. Edison in the Menlo Laboratory when the incandescent light was invented.” “Mr. Jehl is now custodian of the Menlo Park laboratory as it has been restored by -- Mr. Henry Ford at Dearborn, Michigan.” Interior of laboratory as Francis Jehl speaks of Ford’s effort to restore lab in 1929; the repaired original mortar used for mixing carbon to make filaments; Edison’s reaction to lab restoration; and Edison as one of the first scholars at Edison Institute of Technology. “Reminiscences of Menlo Park. End of Part 1.” [1932]
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