Showing posts with label phonographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phonographs. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Thomas Edison Made Phonographs in Bloomfield

It appears that the factory was at the corner on Broad and Liberty Streets, where the Masonic building now sits, but scheduled for a makeover. 
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From the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University:

Thomas Edison's New Jersey
A map showing important sites in New Jersey related to the life and work of Thomas Alva Edison. 
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Ezra Gilliland established a factory to manufacture the new Edison wax-cylinder phonograph in 1887. It was located at corner of Liberty and Broad Streets in Bloomfield.(edison.rutgers.edu).





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