Word: menlo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century he did not stop, though the rise...
Parks, Florida. When he sold his stock-ticker for $40,000 in 1870, he set up a laboratory in Newark. Later, he moved to Menlo Park, N. J. and still later to Llewellyn Park. He also established a winter laboratory at Fort Myers, Fla. In these places he worked...
...electric light plant he was forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices. So sincere, so acquisitive is the admiration of Author Ford for his great & good old friend that he has transplanted to Dearborn the entire early laboratory plants of Fort Myers, Fla. and Menlo Park, N. J., the latter complete to the local boarding house, to teach "boys and girls something of the spirit which made this country." There is a Fordian enthusiasm for that spirit evident throughout the book, which is as simple as the author's automobile, and with...