Edison's laboratory, Menlo Park, was relocated to Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors can see how the lab was set up and try to understand how Edison invented the light bulb. It was his endurance through multiple attempts at failure until he succeeded at creating the light bulb that we can be grateful for his persistence.
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Later on, Thomas Edison moved from Michigan to Newark, New Jersey and established is own research laboratory, Menlo Park. Remarkably, this laboratory and its' building were transferred to the Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. When I visited this laboratory, I thought it resembled an old fashioned chemistry lab, with many glass bottles with powdery looking substances in them. Edison was a great thinker and was able to intuitively integrate chemistry and physics concepts.
Menlo Park is the laboratory where Edison invented the light bulb, another major innovation that has changed how we live. Even to try to understand how Edison came up with the idea of a light bulb is almost incomprehensible. For instance, was he fed up with using candles one day and decided to create something better that did not exist? This was an innovation based on inconvenience that evolved into a much more important concept. It just took some creative thinking, problem solving, and over a thousand t rials and errors!
In the next part, I will further explain how the creation of the light bulb led to other life altering innovations.