The Edison Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 commemorated the 169th birthday of the township’s namesake, Thomas Alva Edison, at 1 p.m. on Feb. 13. This annual tradition took place at Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory site, 37 Christie Street, Edison. Edison’s actual birth date is Feb. 11.
Today known as the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, the location of Edison’s historic laboratory now houses a museum full of remarkable and still working inventions, such as phonographs and early records and light bulbs, photographs of the inventor and his staff, and a gift shop, which sells Edison memorabilia. The 36-acre park is available for nature walks and family picnics. The centerpiece of the Center is the recently renovated and rekindled light tower, which is world renowned as the symbol of the birth place of the incandescent light bulb.
For further information about the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, contact Kathleen Carlucci at kcarlucci@edisonnj.org or visit www.menloparkmuseum.org.
