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The laboratory in Fort Myers where in the 1920's Edison and his team of researchers tried to find a way to make rubber from plants other than the rubber tree. They succeeded -- sort of -- with goldenrod.
Originally posted in 2005.
The Edison theatre closed in 1961 and now houses a carpet store. Appearently upstairs where the offices are, there's still two large doors that used to open up to the balcony. Nonthing else that reminds you of a cinema is left in the interior though (or so the manager claims).
The small round windows remind me of the ones in the back of the City theater (although those are a bit more sophisticated).
As of March 2014, the Edison has been demolished. Some of the beautiful painted wall decorations showed through the rummage.
An Edison Home Phonograph, probably from the 1890s. It played a wax cylinder -- an Edison Gold Moulded cylinder is in the small case on the left -- on which a song or comedy bit was prerecorded. The recording faded after multiple playings, but you could then shave the cylinder down and record your own stuff on it.
Seniors who earned a tassel from Thomas Edison High School of Technology are greeted by principal Shawn Krasa. Covid-19 closed schools and cancelled graduation for 2020 seniors.
Shervin Pishevar (Edison Fund) at the DLD Munich Conference 2023, Europes big innovation conference, January 12-14, 2023. Free press image © Picture Alliance for DLD / Hubert Burda Media
Thomas Alva Edison (Milan, Ohio, 11 de febrero de 1847-West Orange, Nueva Jersey, 18 de octubre de 1931) fue un empresario y un prolífico inventor estadounidense que patentó más de mil inventos (durante su vida adulta hacía un invento cada quince días) y contribuyó a darle, tanto a Estados Unidos como a Europa, los perfiles tecnológicos del mundo contemporáneo: las industrias eléctricas, un sistema telefónico viable, el fonógrafo, las películas, etc.1
"Let there be light." Thomas Alva Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory and Memorial Tower. Those of us on the Jersey Shore call it the "Big Ass Lightbulb!”
The Edison Tower, located on the site of the original laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, to which Thomas Alva Edison moved in 1876, was erected in 1937 as a monument to the great inventor. The Tower is the gift of William Slocum Barstow to The Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Incorporated in behalf of the Edison Pioneers. It was dedicated on February 11, 1838, the ninety-first anniversary of the inventor's birth.
Rising 131 ft. 4 in. above the ground, the tower looms as the highest discernible object for many miles. Surmounting the 117 ft. 8 in. concrete-slab structure is a 13 ft. 8 in. replica of the original incandescent lamp which, when illuminated, can be seen for a distance of several miles. It once served as an airplane beacon. The Tower is designed for pressure of wind at a velocity of 120 miles per hour. In its construction, which consumed slightly less than eight months, approximately 1200 barrels of Edison Portland cement and 50 tons of reinforced steel were used.
The large bulb on top of the Tower was cast by the Corning Glass Works. The replica bulb contains 153 separate pieces of amber tinted Pyrex glass, 2 in. thick, set upon a steel frame. The bulb is 5 ft. in diameter at the neck and 9 ft. 2 in. in diameter at the greatest width and weighs, without the steel frame on which it is placed, in excess of three tons. Inside this Pyrex glass bulb were four 1000 watt bulbs, four 200 watt bulbs, and four 100 watt bulbs. A duplicate of each was arranged as automatically to cut in should its companion bulb fail. The bulb is not currently functional.
The Edison Tower is being completely restored and when complete, the bulb will be illuminated with modern Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. Mr. Edison would be pleased with this, I’m sure.
While we don’t have any records of exactly what was said when Mr. Edison perfected his invention, I suspect one of his workers shouted out something like this: “Holy Mother of Baby Jesus on a Donkey!” “Mr. Edison, You’ve done it!!! You’ve perfected the Electric Light!!! You truly are King of Kings!!!!”
The tower is located on a mysterious plot of land and exactly at midnight on the night of a full moon, it would be a perfect site for the ritual sacrifice of virgins. Too bad we don’t have any virgins in New Jersey! :-)
For additional info, see: www.menloparkmuseum.org
"Saturday September 12, 1965
SS. Detroit Edison passing downbound [sic] under Ambassador Bridge with coal from Toledo
Middle of Bridge"
9/12/65 was obviously a beautiful day in Detroit....
Detroit Edison, as you might guess, carried coal to the power plants along the river. She was scrapped (in Texas) in 1987; evidently Belle River replaced her pretty directly.
Two area high school marching bands helped dedicate the new bridge--Minneapolis Edison and Patrick Henry.
The Lowry Avenue Bridge is a 1,576 foot long tied arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis. It was originally constructed in 1905 and rebuilt in 1958 as a 5-span truss bridge. It was imploded in 2009 after finding several defects--part of an initiative to improve bridges in Minnesota following the tragic 35W bridge collapse. While stunning, architecturally... The $35 million budget was exceeded with a final taxpayer cost of $104 million.
Lowry Avenue Bridge. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seniors who earned a tassel from Thomas Edison High School of Technology are greeted by principal Shawn Krasa. Covid-19 closed schools and cancelled graduation for 2020 seniors.
Film still. Van Bibber's Experiment (USA 1911), d. Ashley Miller p.c. Edison. Starring Robert Conness. From David S. Hulfish, Cyclopedia of Motion-Picture Work (1914).
Seniors who earned a tassel from Thomas Edison High School of Technology are greeted by principal Shawn Krasa. Covid-19 closed schools and cancelled graduation for 2020 seniors.
A little over five years ago, I posted one of my first TTV experiments with the following verse...
"The sun has left us on time, am going to read from the Encyclopedia Britannica to steady my nerves and go to bed early. I will shut my eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful maiden. To the first I will deliver my mind and they will pass it down, down to the uttermost depths of silence and oblivion."
-Diary, Thomas Edison-
and here we are, some 1,900 TTV posts later...
In Boston Edison Historic District, Detroit. Wandered through in the 80's back when this had a glazed tile roof.
This is not quite a squircle, since the outer edges inscribe an octagon rather than a circle, but it was still an interesting view.
108 West 2nd St
Los Angeles, California
A damn fine bar. These photos were taken before it opened and may show it with the house lights up.
108 West 2nd St
Los Angeles, California
A damn fine bar. These photos were taken before it opened and may show it with the house lights up.
just testing my new setup! and yes he is getting sick of dad!
strobist info
sb-900 triggered via cls into white shoot thru umbrella just out of frame to camera right
yn-460 opticaly triggered from the sb-900 camera left behind edison acting as rim light (1/32nd power)
taken on a D90 with 35mm 1.8 lense.