Edison, Incorporated and the National Park Service specified that the property not
given the United States would come under the management and safekeeping of
the latter. gave the land and buildings
of Edison’s West Orange laboratory the nation with the intent establishing it
as national monument. project inventory and
appraise the contents was begun this time. the same time Thomas Edison, Inc.
Edison Foundation.636
The West Orange laboratory buildings were handed over the National Park
Service 1955, just before Thomas Edison Incorporated was bought out the
McGraw Electric Company.
160
. Most the contents and personal property these
buildings were given the United States 1956.
838 Venable, Out the Shadows: The Story Charles Edison, pp. The 1939 photographs show that much the rear part the
building was occupied equipment used the storage battery/starter motor
experiments which had been terminated Edison’s death.the National Park System December 1955 National Site under non-federal
ownership.
The building was cleared its contents 1948 and remodelled the Thomas A. Two presses which were
once the machine shop can seen figure 15." Act of
Congress September 1962 combined Edison Home National Historic Site and
Edison Laboratory National Historic Monument into Edison National Historic
Site. The photographs show
battery charging apparatus and testing instruments. 1959 the company gave the land and
buildings the Edison home the nation, and over the next few years the
contents were also conveyed the United States.
Building 1
By 1935 Building was poor repair and had become more junk room than
a store room. 237, 240-43.
In 1940 the Edison family decided restore the building had been 1931. The two offices the front the building were made into
535 Paul Christiansen Conrad Wirth, June 1956, Accession Records, Edison NHS.636 The reconstituted Mcgraw-Edison Company made
a gift the remaining contents the site the National Park Service 1957,
after inventory was completed. The agreement between Thomas A.
On July 17, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower issued Proclamation
establishing the Edison National Monument, "to commemorate the outstanding
achievements the great American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Edison, Inc.,
merged with McGraw Electric Company January 2,1957
