Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Complex (Dearborn, Michigan) | library, lab, boarding house, scientific research institute / centre

USA / Michigan / Dearborn / Dearborn, Michigan / Village Road
 house, library, lab, boarding house, scientific research institute / centre

This was the world's first industrial research complex. In this laboratory, Thomas Edison created the phonograph in 1877 and the first viable lightbulb in 1879. He also patented an electric distribution system and a carbon microphone which was used in telephones until the 1980s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_New_Jersey
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Coordinates:   42°18'19"N   83°13'35"W
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