Edison started work on a new laboratory, in 1886, to replace the one at Menlo Park. His earlier idea of an ‘invention factory’ had been a huge success, and the Menlo Park complex was the largest private laboratory in the U.S., in the 1870s. Now he wanted to create a much bigger facility to do large-scale industrial research and develop new inventions. That is how the West Orange Laboratory came to be.
When the West Orange Laboratory was opened, it was the world’s best-equipped private industrial research facility. It had all the resources needed by the world’s greatest inventor — highly skilled experimenters, the best equipment and the latest scientific knowledge.
Edison worked there from 1887 to his death in 1931.
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