What and where is Menlo Park?
Menlo Park, New Jersey, is where Edison built his most famous laboratory in 1876. (Menlo Park is now part of Edison, New Jersey.) There he developed the electric light system and invented the first phonograph. Newspapers started to call him “The Wizard of Menlo Park.” However, Menlo Park served as his lab for only ten years. It has since been rebuilt, but now you have to go to Michigan to see it. Henry Ford rebuilt the lab as part of Greenfield Village, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.