Edison's Basement Unearthed

[kenel]

MSNBC reports:

 

EDISON, N.J. — An archaeological dig at Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory site has uncovered what an Edison expert believes is the basement of the inventor’s office building — and he hopes it will yield artifacts from the man who made the world’s first light bulb and phonograph.

 

STORY:

EDISON HISTORIAN Jack Stanley, who is leading the dig, said a crevice lined with craggy red bricks is believed to lead into the basement of the now-destroyed 1882 building that housed Edison’s library and stood next to the famed laboratory.

 

The team plans to unearth the site Saturday.

 

A team of diggers from nearby Monmouth College working at the 34-acre laboratory complex site found a hole they thought was only a sinkhole until they identified it as the building site from photographs and a survey done by Henry Ford in 1928.

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The dig is part of a project to underline Edison’s historical importance. Plans call for building a new museum and replica of the famous lab, said Edison Mayor George Spadoro.

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Edison held 1,300 U.S. and foreign patents in his lifetime, including the transmitter and receiver for the automatic telegraph, the kinetoscope or “peep show” machine and an improved stock ticker system. The inventor died in 1931.

 

I believe the key to further development is inspiration from the past. Maybe "new" Edison inventions will even be discovered.