Edison Memorial Bulb Ready (Feb, 1938)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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While we’re on the topic of Edison, what better way to memorialize him than with a giant light bulb.
Edison Memorial Bulb Ready
A GIANT electric light bulb, 14 feet high, which will surmount the $100,000 Edison Memorial Tower at Menlo Park, N. J., in commemoration of the invention of the incandescent lamp by the famous inventor, has been completed. The bulb, in position atop the 150-foot tower, will also serve as an airways beacon.
The bulb consists of 164 pieces of glass cast in two-inch diamond patterns around a steel skeleton frame. The interior features 960 incandescent lights and a 24-inch reflector.
The Edison Memorial Tower that displays this giant bulb is still visitable in what is now Edison, NJ.
http://www.edisonnj.org/
There’s even a small museum, though the larger labs were moved to Michigan by that crazy weirdo Henry Ford.
Comment by Eeyore — February 11, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
The Edison Museum, not open to the public
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
Folks drive in from out of town
To gaze in amazement when they see it
Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard
Underneath the gathering thunderstorm
Through the iron bars, I see the Black Maria
Revolving slowly on its platform
In the topmost tower, a light burns dim
A coiling filament glowing within
The Edison Museum, once a bustling factory
Today is but a darkened, cobweb covered hive of industry
The tallest, widest and most famous haunted mansion in New Jersey
Behind a wooden door, the voice of Thomas Alva
Recites a poem on a phonograph
Ghosts float up the stair, like silent moving pictures
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
But no one ever goes in, and no one ever goes out
So when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them
Just tell them that you’ll take them to the Edison Museum
The largest independently owned and operated mausoleum
The Edison Museum
By: They Might Be Giants
Comment by jayessell — February 11, 2008 @ 3:42 pm