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Welcome! This is a virus free website, Ok to Allow Blocked Content and run Active XWelcome to the Friends of Thomas Edison NHP. If
this is your first visit, thank you for taking some time to look
around. We hope to provide regular updates on this Welcome
page and point you to some current events and new activities at the Thomas Edison National Historic Park
which include Edison Laboratories in
West Orange NJ and the nearby Edison Home in Glenmont.
A special request for a very special project. Once again the Friends of Thomas Edison NHP would like to announce a request for funds to sponsor/support a special project at Glenmont. The Master Gardeners of Essex County have prepared a
plan to replant the large oval flowerbed located at the right front of
Glenmont. Currently, it’s blanketed by a low ground cover and is
barely noticeable. Historically, Mrs. Edison updated the flowerbed
annually. This made a dramatic statement as visitors approached the
house on foot or by automobile. The Master Gardeners and the
Garden Club of the Oranges that has been maintaining the Greenhouse
plants and some nearby outside flowerbeds as volunteers have some
overlap in their respective membership. All are committed to
making this effort succeed and their time and effort remains as a
totally volunteer project for the participants. Three elements are essential to accomplish this project which requires only $1,000 to complete: $600 for plants; $300 soil amendments; $100 deer repellant. This is an estimate but it’s based upon plans and pricing already provided. Funding by donors is critical to letting this vital effort proceed so planting may proceed in May of this year. The Friends is committed to advancing the required funds with the hope that the majority can be offset by sponsors/donors. Wouldn’t it be great if one of our dear Friends would underwrite this particularly worthwhile program completely? If you'd like to see the conceptual design of the proposed flower beds please click here. If you can help, please contact the Friends now via e-mail at foe00@Verizon.net or kindly leave a voice mail for John at the Friends at (973) 736-2916. The Friends of Thomas Edison NHP will be sure to acknowledge this urgent donation in a very appropriate way. Thank you.
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Behind the scenes with 'The Wizard of Menlo Park' from CNET CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman recently visited the Thomas
Edison National Historic Park and filed a very informative
story that presents an overview of the sights and sounds visitors enjoy
For a great story and nice color photos please click on the image of the first phonograph, sometimes called the Kruesi Model to the right. This will link directly to the "up close and personal story" at CNET.com. Please click photo!
Thomas Alva Edison makes Time!
The July 5th, 2010 issue of Time Magazine features Thomas Alva Edison as the special 9th annual history edition. Please click this image of Time Magazine to link to their website, where you can access this issue's "Table of Contents" and summaries of the several distinct articles delineating Edison's legacy.
<-- Click this image.
Special Features and Topics included in this article are Electricity, Phonograph, Movies, To Our Readers, Photos of the World's First R&D Lab. The on line version of Time Magazine linked here includes some great Videos: Incredible Talking Machine, The AC/DC Battle, Movie (and Talkie!) Pioneer, The Electric Light and Edison's Menlo Park Lab.
Was Tom a Yankee fan? Recently Ken Mandel, Treasurer and Charley Hummel,
Chairman of Friends of Thomas Edison National Historic Park presented
Greg Marshall, Superintendent,
Thomas Edison National Historical Park a
commemorative remnant of the recently demolished Yankee Stadium.
Yankee Stadium was built with Edison's Portland
cement, read the history.
Sometime in the future the Friends of Thomas Edison NHP hope to
market/auction samples of other (much smaller) pieces of the collected
cement to raise money to support a variety of activities and projects at
the Park. Details about this program are not yet available. If you have any suggestions or questions about this expected program, please contact Charley, Ken Mandel or John, click Contact.
Look around! Please spend some time looking around. Be sure to see the on-line video presentations that give an introduction to the fabulous Edison Historic Site properties. This is the next best thing to being there and something you'll want to see if you're planning on visiting the Thomas Edison NHP in West Orange NJ. The photos show some of what has already been accomplished particularly at the Edison Home in Glenmont and see improvements completed in the Labs.
The Friends of the Thomas Edison NHP have already accomplished so much with the archiving, cataloging, preserving the buildings, original material and items located at the Site. But much more works needs to be done and you can participate in helping preserve this extraordinary history.
If you have some suggestions or content that you like to add to this Friends of Thomas Edison NHP website, please click Contact to get in touch with our volunteer team. Thanks for visiting, we hope to hear from you.
For more information on how to join the Friends of Thomas Edison NHP, please click on Programs.
Special Program: This is a unique opportunity for individuals, companies, phonograph collector clubs, research teams or anyone interested in participating in preserving the Edison legacy and history to "Adopt" one or more of the very rare Edison Phonographs that need some level of restoration so they may be included in a exhibit in the new Phonograph Gallery on the third floor at Building Five. To see the machines up for adoption that need some special care before going on exhibit, please click here.
Free Lab Notebooks:
Lab Notebook, Winter 2011 <-- click here Lab Notebook, Summer 2010 <-- click here Lab Notebook, Spring 2008 <-- click hereLab Notebook, Autumn 2007 <-- click here More Park Newsletters at Thomas Edison NHP <-- click here
The Lab Notebook is the Official Newsletter of the Thomas Edison National Historic Park (TENHP). Click on one of the above reports for some great information from the United States Department of Interior National Park Service located at the Thomas Edison NHP. The on-line version of The Lab Notebook Newsletter in Adobe .pdf format contains some interesting articles about the history and current situation at TENHP, stories including personalities and profiles of staff and visitors to TENHP and more.
To read these on-line Lab Notebooks, you'll need an Adobe Reader Application Program on your PC. If you already have Adobe Reader, just double-click on one of the above Lab Reports. If you need an Adobe Reader click here, then make your selection. By the way, you don't need any other software such as the Google Toolbar or other freebies, just download the reader if you need it.
After you visit our site here, be sure to visit our Friends at the Thomas Edison National Historic Park, <-- click!
And you should also be sure to visit our Friends at the Charles Edison Fund Site, <-- click!
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