Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum
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The Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum is a memorial located in Edison, New Jersey to inventor and businessman Thomas Edison.
It was built in 1937 and dedicated on February 11, 1938, which was the inventor's 91st birthday. The tower is at the exact spot where the laboratory was located.
The museum showcases many of Thomas Edison's creations including the phonograph and some of his light bulbs.
The tower was also mentioned in the 2004 Weird NJ book. It says that originally, the tower was not only a tribute to the light bulb, but also recorded sound. It had speakers loud enough to be heard two miles away, but it was discontinued to avoid noise pollution.
The Edison Museum is the subject of a song ("The Edison Museum") on the They Might Be Giants 2002 album No!. It is also debatable that it appeared in a 1998 episode of The Simpsons, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace. If it did, the show's writers were unaware that the original laboratory was tediously deconstructed and rebuilt outside of New Jersey after the inventor's death.
External links
- Menlo Park (http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/)
- Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum (http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/museum.asp)
