Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

EDISON As I KNOW HIM

of a man alive is to perpetuate the scenes amidst
which he lived and did his most important work.
At Menlo Park, in New Jersey, Mr. Edison invented the phonograph and his whole system of
incandescent lighting; at Fort Myers, in Florida,
he perfected the phonograph record and did other
important pieces of work.
Long ago he abandoned Menlo Park, but with
the help of Mr. Edison and his friends we have
reestablished Menlo Park at Dearborn, exactly
like the first Menlo Park, even to the trees and
shrubs. We have moved to it whatever of the
original buildings, furniture and fittings we could
discover, and where we have had to piece out
with new material, that material is exactly the
same as the original.
People will be able to see the exact scene out
of which came the electric light and to realize
how simply even the greatest things come into
being.
We have transplanted the Fort Myers laboratory and also we have found or have had given
to us most of the more important models and
drawings and other material incidents of Mr.
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