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National Park Service: Dison National Historical Site: The Invention Factory InteractiveNational Park Service: Dison National Historical Site: The Invention Factory Interactive
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6th - 9th
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Interactives
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National Park Service: Dison National Historical Site: The Invention Factory

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This terrific interactive site from the National Park Service describes the different buildings on Thomas Edison's West Orange, New Jersey's laboratory facility. After exploring the buildings, follow Edison's invention and application of the motion picture camera and the eventual development of the film industry by playing an interactive game. Do the same with Edison's invention of the first practical light bulb.

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inventions, thomas edison

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invention process, kinetograph, kinetoscope, motion picture camera, motion pictures, movie industry, "black maria", light bulb

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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