Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum

The Menlo Park Museum/Edison Memorial Tower, is a dedication to innovator and representative Thomas Alva Edison, situated in Edison New Jersey.The pinnacle denotes the area of Edison's Menlo Park lab, the world's initially composed innovative work site. He came to Menlo Park in 1876, the region was then known as Raritan Township, and later changed to Edison Township. Edison and his staff would make 400 of his most vital developments here.

It was this site Edison would affectionately epithet his 'Development Factory'. Edison and his staff were working in New York City, assembling the world's first focal appropriation site for power, when his significant other Mary Stilwell Edison passed on at their Menlo Park home.