Word: menlo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock ticker eventually earned him $40,000, a considerable sum at the time. He used this windfall to set up and staff a shop in Newark, N.J., to manufacture these tickers. But other companies began besieging Edison for technical advice, and in 1876 he moved his operation to Menlo Park and created the world's first industrial-research facility, a humming workplace dedicated to improving or creating new products for pay. Some think that Menlo Park itself, which showed the industrialized world a new method of making progress, was Edison's most influential invention...
...also the most prodigious inventor of his era, indeed of all time, and he was recognized as the spirit of a new age by his contemporaries. They observed the amazing new products streaming out of his New Jersey laboratory and, sensing magic, named Edison the Wizard of Menlo Park...
Versity was established in 1998 by Jeff Lawson and three other enterprising undergraduates at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Last year the founders dropped out of university and moved to Menlo Park, Calif., to work full-time on their business...
Harvard's first outpost was established in 1997 in Silicon Valley's Menlo Park, Calif. Used exclusively by the business school, the outpost is currently staffed with a researcher and an executive director...
This is what too much money can do to a person. Since selling his business to Netscape in March 1996 for "enough to sustain my lifestyle indefinitely," Jayson Adams, 32, has spent a lot of time thinking. An incredible amount of that thinking has taken place at Menlo Park's Cafe Borrone, a coffee shop four blocks from his apartment. "Since I was 16 or so, my objective was to start a company and sell it or IPO," he says, sipping...