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Get ready for our 75th Edison Birthday Celebration at the Birthplace! Join us the weekend of October 22nd.

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"All things come to those who hustle while they wait."

- Thomas Alva Edison

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History in August

August 27th, 1878: Begins electric lighting experiments.

August 09th, 1884: Mary Stilwell Edison (Edison’s first wife) dies at Menlo Park, age 29.

August 3rd, 1890: Edison's third son, Charles, is born.

August 1890: Purchases property in Silver Lake, New Jersey (now the Bloomfield-Belleville area); locates the plant of the Edison Manufacturing Company on the site.

August 24th, 1891: Executes patent applications (U. S. Pats. 493,426 and 589,168) for the kinetoscope and kinetograph.

When did Thomas Alva Edison receive a special Congressional Medal for "illuminating the path of progress through the development and application of inventions that have revolutionized civilization in the last century"?

Last month's question: True or False: Thomas Edison’s first teacher was his mother.

Answer: False