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Edison Related Resources

  • Web Link Historic Photographs at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park

    National Park Service, Thomas Edison National Historical Park

  • Web Link Edison After 40

    A Smithsonian Institution exhibit about the second half of the inventor's life.

  • Web Link Lighting a Revolution

    A Smithsonian Instituion exhibit on the history of electric lighting.

  • Web Link Edison-related items

    A search of The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution turns up several posts related to Edison.

  • Web Link Edison-related items 2

    The Smithsonian Institution is digitizing many of its collections. A search will turn up many items related to Edison and his work.

  • Web Link Edison-related items 3

    The Library of Congress is digitizing millions of items in its collection and has linked to other collections as well. A search will turn up many items related to Edison and his work.

  • Web Link Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

    The Library of Congress holds an unparalleled collection of early Edison motion pictures and collections of cylinder and disc recordings.

  • Web Link UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

    The UCSB Library hosts a digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder records from the era of acoustic recording.

  • Web Link Thomas Edison's Attic: Playlists and Archives

    A radio program hosted by the Curator of Recordings, Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

  • Web Link Thomas A Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey

    This website focuses on Menlo Park at the time Edison lived and worked there but also has materials from his later career.

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