The Office has a display of things that Edison invented and developed, including many personal notes and manuscripts of the inventor. When we walked in the door, there was a tour being conducted of the small museum, and we were invited right on into the small group. The volunteer had many fascinating facts about the development of the items, what worked well and what didn’t, and how it was improved upon.
A lineup of some of the graphs, phonographs, and dictographs of different styles. Our volunteer guide played several of them for us, and I think that all of the others are also in working order.
An early Ediphone that used wax drums to record and play messages. I remember seeing a device like this in Butte Montana, in a old lawyers office while on a walking tour. An early film projector developed by Thomas Edison.
Displayed around the room were many notes and drawings that Edison had done for family and friends. The guide explained to us about his experiments with radiation, and how a assistant became Ill and died from over exposure, and Edison quit radiation experiments because of the dangers involved.
The house that Thomas Edison was born in. The house is staged with furniture from family and donations of period correct items, because when Edison’s parents moved to another town, their house caught fire and all was lost, except what a sister had in her own house at that time, and they are here on display.
Ohio State Historical Markers are well done.
The front room fireplace, Anne-Marie on the right. This display case had many artifacts to fragile for visitors to handle.
This bedroom furniture and washbasin items belonged to Thomas Edison’s Mother and later his sister. The Sister had this furniture in her house at the time of the parents loosing all possessions in a house fire.
The spinning wheel, and items belonged to Edison’s Mother, and were saved by being at the Sisters house when the parents home burned. This is the basement and the kitchen of the house. There was no water plumbed into the house during their time here. The fireplace was where all cooking was done, and baking was done with small oven box hung over the fire.
The kitchen area with Anne-Marie listening to the volunteer guide. The items behind Anne-Marie are wood working tools from the period, and show how Edison’s father supported the family.
Our Volunteer guide, and another well done sign by the State of Ohio. Our guide took a special liking to us when she found out that we were full time travelers, as her and her husband wish to do that when they retire. Our one hour tour turned into over a two hour visit and tour. The guide and Anne-Marie shared common experiences of small town living, and both have husbands who are or were longtime Volunteer Firefighters, and EMTs, and both related to nighttime fire calls, and how each helped the husband out of the house.
We were well entertained by the museum and home tours, and to prevent reaching an overload of information, we called it a day. There are several buildings only one block away from here that belong to The Milan Museum, and from the size of them, we could be there a whole day, and the downtown area has several historical buildings to visit, we will have to return another day to see the other attractions in the town.
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