Edison and his electric light. Scenes at Menlo Park on New Year's Eve – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Edison and his electric light. Scenes at Menlo Park on New Year's Eve comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Edison and his electric light. Scenes at Menlo Park on New Year's Eve
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Edison's New Year's Eve demonstration at Menlo Park, New Jersey, in late December 1879 drew crowds who rode special trains from New York to see the new electric lights glowing along the village streets and inside the laboratory. This wood engraving, published in The Daily Graphic on January 3, 1880, pictures those scenes as illustrators of the day imagined them, combining the lamps, the crowds and the workshop into one page. The event was a public showing of the incandescent bulb, which Edison had developed over the previous year, and newspapers across the country covered it as a milestone in lighting.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Full page of wood engravings in: The Daily Graphic, 1880 Jan. 3, cover. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Electricity; NJ--Menlo Park; Laboratories; BI; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,057 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141882 |
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