Edison Winter Home Museum, Fort Myers Photos

Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric light, phonographs, motion picture projectors, electric motors & dozens of other machines that changed the world's way of life. The museum features a large collection of his creations plus a chemical lab he used to search for a substitute source for rubber.

See also: Florida, Edison Winter Home, Ford Winter Home, Edison Home & Laboratory
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Banyan tree beside Edison's chemical rubber laboratory.

Interior of Edison's chemical lab, preserved as was the day Edison shut down the project.

Edison's lab office where chemists attempted to extract rubber from goldenrod, but stopped when synthetic rubber invented by others.

Laboratory table in the museum at the Edison Winter Estate.

Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison (1939) by T.O. Tallmadge at Edison home.

Bust of Thomas Alva Edison (prior to 1966).

Statue of Thomas Edison in garden of Edison winter home.

Engraved profile portrait on medal of Thomas Alva Edison.

Thomas Alva Edison (1874-1931) commemorative portrait medal.

Thomas Alva Edison portrait medal for Electrical Exposition & Motor Show of New York (1913) by C.G. Braxmar.

Two medals of Thomas Edison for Tokyo (1965) & Electric Light Co., Philadelphia (1889-1914).

Swiss gold pocket watch (1927) with engraved filament light bulb given to Edison by Charles Willis Ward.

Columbus 50¢ USA coins for World's Columbian Exposition Chicago (1892).

Gold Medal award of Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904).

Medal from Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon (1905).

Early Edison light bulbs at Edison Estate Museum.

Tungsten Mazda light bulbs (c1910) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Printing Telegraph machine (c1873) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Embossing Translating Telegraph precurssor of the phonograph at Edison Estate Museum.

Spring-driven Concert Phonograph (c1899) with large drum for better sound at Edison Estate Museum.

Phonographs (left: Fireside model A c1908), (mid: Triumph c1899 with 2 needles & horns) & (rt: Gem c1900) at Edison Estate Museum.

Climax Phonograph (c1895) at Edison Estate Museum.

Coin-operated Phonograph (c1900) at Edison Estate Museum.

Coin-operated Multiphone (c1905-8) was early jukebox at Edison Estate Museum.

Home phonographs (c1906-9) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Home phonographs with painted cone speakers at Edison Estate Museum.

Tuba-like sound bell on Edison Home phonograph at Edison Estate Museum.

Amerola Phonographs (c1913-8) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Disk Phonograph (c1920-1) at Edison Estate Museum.

Early Edison office dictation equipment at Edison Estate Museum.

Ediphone office dictation machines at Edison Estate Museum.

Early machine to play both a moving picture & sound recording at Edison Estate Museum.

Moving picture viewing machine at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Universal Projecting Kinetoscope (c1893) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison invented electric motors in 1879 (this model c 1889) & made them in his General Electric plant, Schenectady, NY, at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison X-ray machine (invented c1896) at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Mimeograph (invented c1875) & sold patent to A.B. Dick, Chicago, at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison Mimeograph typewriter for cutting Mimeo stencils at Edison Estate Museum.

Early Edison waffle iron at Edison Estate Museum.

Edison electric coffee pot (c1890) at Edison Estate Museum.

Early Edison clothes irons at Edison Estate Museum.

Turkey platter designed for President Rutherford B. Hayes by Theodore Davis of Haviland & Co. (c1880) at Edison Estate Museum.

Marble-topped dresser set from Edison Winter Estate in Estate Museum.


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