Edison Electrics

Named after Thomas Edison in 1977, Edison Electrics was both a boom to the trade, as well as a tribute to Newark's tech hero.

History
Created in Edison's home town, it was an industrial research lab, funded completely by the sales of quadruplex phonographs. As hommage to the inventor's past, they foccused areas of study on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other inventions Edison had developed.

One major development was a system for electricity distribution which was the secret of the lab. Underneith the lab was a computer that controled Edison's generating station's electrical power distribution system

Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous quotation: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."This slogan was reputedly posted at several other locations throughout the facility.

Today
Littered with Nikola Tesla and You magazines, pencils, turpentine, and other sceientific scraps, the research continues, led by a protectron who believes himself to be Thomas Alva Edison