Article: 'Invention factory' revisited. (Thomas Edison's laboratories, West Orange, NJ)

To the average passerby, the red brick buildings of the Edison National Historic site in West Orange, NJ look a lot like other old, ivy-covered buildings. But the unassuming structures belie the history within: Thomas Alva Edison and his teams of scientists, engineers, and craftsmen created more than half of Edison's 1,093 patented inventions there earlier this century.

Edison still holds the largest number of patents of any single inventor, but that is just one of the accomplishments of a man who was instrumental in helping to bring about the technological age.

At West Orange, Edison perfected many of the inventions conceived at what he called his "invention ...

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