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Series 6DK-1194 General view of the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, erected in 1887 and used by the great American inventor until his death in 1931. The three-story building is the main laboratory, containing Mr. Edison's library-office, stock room, machine shops, and other working space. Also shown, from left to right, are the chemical storage room and pattern shop, the chemical laboratory, and the physics laboratory. In the foreground is part of the Main Archives and Museum. Storage vault built in 1940. These structures and several additional buildings are now preserved as the Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, New Jersey |
