Menlo Park

What if Menlo Park was never created? A park in Edison Township, located in northern central Jersey, had land that was an unsuccessful estate development. This park was named after Menlo Park in California, which later became the site that Thomas Edison would reside in. Thomas Edison built not only his home, but his laboratory there too. This is the site that the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb were invented. If Menlo park estate development did not fail, then we could have been without

Your Startup’s Unique Origin Story Can Be Your Most Marketable Asset Blood, sweat, tears – ask the founder of any startup, and she’ll tell you those are the building blocks which went into her company. She has toiled for months, even years to make this happen, often in some cramped space hidden away in the bowels of someone else’s building. Dig a little deeper, and you begin to learn more about how the company started and what made its creator so passionate – passionate enough to do the

Thomas Alva Edison, or the "Wizard of Menlo Park" was an American inventor who developed direct current (electric current that runs in one direction). Direct current was the standard in the US in the early years of electricity. One major issue with direct current transmission methods was that direct current was not easily transformed into higher or lower voltages. Meanwhile, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse believed in an idea known as alternating current. Alternating current reverses the direction

Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were two of the most influential minds of the 1800s. Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, worked hard his whole life to achieve great feats in science. Tesla, the Master of Lightning, had a brilliant mind and contributed to an electronic growth that changed American history. Thomas Edison is such a familiar name, but Tesla on the other hand is more obscure. Edison is widely known by the American public, but his intellectual equal and adversary is often forgotten. Edison

Nicholas Woodman was born in Menlo Park, California in 1981. His parents were a Hispanic mother and a Quaker father, who just happen to co-found an investment bank. By the 12th grade his mother re-married Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners in 1992 and moved the family to Atherton, California, where Nicholas graduated in 1993 from Menlo School. Nick dropped out of team sports to focus on surfing during his high school senior year and formed the school's first surf club. He

Rydalmere Summary Rydalmere is a Sydney suburb that is unique and growing with apartment developments going up and some renovations in the area. The local schools are within walking distance for the kids of Rydalmere, as are the nice sports ovals, parks, and playgrounds for a nice recreation culture. Rydalmere offers public transportation via ferry, trains, or buses when the locals want to venture outside their nice suburb. Living in Rydalmere puts you within five minutes of Parramatta via public

Assignment at a Park Hayden Park was an interesting place for a Freeze-Frame assignment. For those who have not heard of a Freeze-Frame, it is simply sitting in one spot for 15 to 20 minutes observing ones surroundings. So to continue, at first glance, Hayden Park is a typical Valley of the Sun type park. Most of these typical parks have grass, picnic tables, some trees, and usually some sort of sports availability such as a basketball court or soccer field, or both. In addition, the parks also have

Introduction With the rapid growth of the American population and the greater demand for work, large urban areas developed throughout the U.S. landscape. Urbanization, as it is called, is the replacement of the rural areas with more urban ones. Urbanization has impacted human behavior and wildlife as well and most likely won’t be ending anytime soon as humanity continues to push into wildlife habitats. As relative keepers of the environment, humans need to understand the impacts of urbanization

presents problems for these kids lives. The problem I am focusing on is the 9th Street Childrens Park. The problem with it is that it's getting worn down and becoming a small hazard. This problem has been becoming worse and worse over the past decade. Concerns have grown with it as well. Parents are concerned about their children's safety, and I would have to both agree and disagree. The main problem with the park is the main structure. The wood is untreated and the bolts are well past starting to rust

My group had to opportunity to observe CM Allen’s afterschool program first and meet the kids residing in the neighborhood. Upon arriving, I noticed the little playground right across the street from the KAD Korner Store and it wasn’t very big and took up most space in the area so there wasn’t a lot of open space for the kids to run around and play different, structured games like the ones we had planned. I didn’t like that the playground was across the street because the kids would run back and