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For Our Daily Challenge: Roll.
This container holds the roll for the Edison cylinder gramophone which was the forerunner to flat record players.
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company was incorporated in 1886. I don't know how old this building is, though.
The company later changed its name to Boston Edison, and even more recently was absorbed by NStar, which is who uses this building now.
The building is not in such great shape and when I saw the warning sign from a distance, I thought it was going to be indicating a vacant building that was condemned or was structurally unsafe. But no, the building is in use and the sign is for high voltage.
Thomas Edison's Menlo Park invention factory, as reestablished at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn.
Taken in the autumn of 1988.
There's something about Greenfield Village. For those of us who live near Dearborn, it's a special place; a slice of history as captured by Henry Ford and as interpreted by his successors. But I've friends in Dayton who consider the Wright Cycle Shop to be a stolen artifact, and I suspect there are folks in New Jersey with similar opinions about these buildings.
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Sorry 'bout the horribly dirty slide. I may work this one over again one of these days.
At the grand opening of Greenfield Village - October 21, 1929 - Edison, who was deeply honored and moved by the tribute given to him that evening, reenacted the lighting of the first incandescent light, which originally took place 50 years ago on that date in the very same building. Henry Ford and President Hoover were right there in the room with him while this event was nationally broadcast on radio. After the moment took place, Ford ordered his men to have the chair upon which Edison sat for the reenactment to be nailed to the floor as is. The chair was to be never sat in again.
On April 21, 2023 volunteers from Potomac Edison planted 400 trees at Cunningham Falls State Park and removed invasive plants from the area.
Located at Frederiksberg Alle 2 in the inner city district of Vesterbro. The Edison Biografen opened in 1908 and closed in 1925. Seen here in 2008, it is in use as a photography shop.
Champaign (Ill.) – Aerial Photographs Envelope, Local History Photographs, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana, Illinois.
Information from photograph: Edison School, Champaign. Lincoln School seen just above Edison School. News-Gazette, Harold Holmes.
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The Port Hueneme "Reliant Energy" (formerly Edison) power plant, shot across the Ormond Beach wetlands from the base of the Hueneme Pier
Gillig & TMC buses at Boundary Road & Kent Avenue North. They're being prepped for the Olympic bus fleet - Vancouver, British Columbia
Mannequins of Thomas Edison and Gustave Eiffel, in the apartment Eiffel built for himself at the top of the Eiffel Tower.