Notes REGARDING COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY

Note 1: Anna Sproule, Thomas A. Edison, The World’s Greatest Inventor, Blackbirch Press Inc., Woodbridge, Connecticut, 2000, p. 11. back

Note 2: Ibid, pp. 14-15. back

Note 3: Ibid, p. 21. back

Note 4: Sproule, p. 25. back

Note 5: Ibid, p. 26. back

Note 6: Ibid. back

Note 7: Ibid. back

Note 8: Stacy Spies, Images of America Edison, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001, pp. 14 & 20. back

Note 9: Sproule, p. 28. back

Note 10: Spies, p. 13. back

Note 11: Ian Burrow determined that the term “Invention Factory” is first mentioned in an interview with Edison in the Philadelphia Weekly Times on April 29, 1878 (Israel 1998 chapter 8, footnote 2 on page 486). back

Note 12: The Edison Pioneers (compilers), The Story of Menlo Park, p. 14. back

Note 13: Ibid, p. 20. back

Note 14: Note 14: Ibid, p. 21. back

Note 15: Kathleen L. McGuirk, Introduction — The Diary of Thomas A. Edison, The Chatham Press, Inc., Old Greenwich, Connecticut, 1931, p. 8. back

Note 16: McGuirk, p. 9. back

Note 17: The New York Times, Mr. Edison’s Wedding, February 25, 1886. back

Note 18: Spies, p. 21. back

Note 19: Note 19: Ibid. back

Note 20: State of New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic Development, Edison State Park, Bureau of Parks, p. 1. back

Note 21: Note 21: Ibid. back

Note 22: Note 22: Ibid, p. 2. back