I went to my grandfather's house for winter break today. We went to go see Thomas Edison's laboratory and library. When we went to go see the library, I thought it was absolutely amazing! I was told that he usually spent his nights at his library as apposed to his home. It showed that there was a bed for him in the corner of the room.
The strange thing about it was that they displayed different paintings and pictures all over the place. But, where else could they put them, but hanging off the railings?
After the library we went down to his work shops. I could recognize a type writer that he made, but I didn't think It would be shaped like so:
There were also a lot of things that I couldn't even recognize. But I think that this one was some type of message writer:
But that wasn't all that he physically constructed. There were lots of things that he powered with his motors and belts.
Last, we went down to his chemistry lab. It showed all of the toxic chemicals that he used in his experiments. When the place was turned into a tourist attraction, they apparently cleaned off all of the ash that was on the walls. But to show us the comparison of how it looks today to how it looked back then, they left a square of dirt and dust on the wall.
It reminded me of how people often got sick in coalmines. I asked our tour guide if he ever got sick, but he said that he did not spend much of his time in the lab. Therefore, he did not get sick at all.
Taking this trip taught me a lot about how he changed society and the technology that we have today.
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