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Home > Invention > Menlo Park > Carbon Shed |
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Thomas Edison’ Menlo Park
Most of it was pressed into small tablets and then sliced into thin wafers to form the carbon transmitting buttons for Edison’s telephone. |
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The Carbon Shed contained a rows of ordinary Kerosene lamps that remained constantly
burning. The carbon soot that collected on the glass chimneys was scraped off and saved
nightly by the nightwatchman.