Thomas Edison House

Thomas Edison House is a historic house located in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The house is a shotgun duplex built around 1850. Thomas Edison took up residence in the same neighborhood, possibly even at this location, a part of the time he lived in Louisville from 1866 to 1867. The house features a museum that honors Edison and his inventions.^[1]

Edison's time in Louisville

In 1866, at age 19, Thomas Edison, a skilled telegrapher, came to Louisville to work for Western Union, which at that time had an office on the corner of Main and Second Streets. In August 1866, Edison left briefly, intending to take a trip to Brazil but was turned back at New Orleans because the waterway was shut down. So, he returned to work in Louisville and found lodging in a shotgun duplex on East Washington Street in what is now Butchertown.

In 1867, while working the night shift, Edison, already the experimenter, was working with a battery when he spilled sulfuric acid onto the floor and his boss' desk on the floor below. The next day, he was fired, and left town for good. Sixteen years later, in 1883, one of Edison's new inventions, the incandescent light bulb, was demonstrated in the largest installation to date in Louisville at the Southern Exposition.

See also

• List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
• List of museums in the Louisville metropolitan area

References

External links

• Official website

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Museums in Kentucky

Art

• Kentucky Folk Art Center
• KMAC Museum
• Museum of the American Quilter's Society
• Speed Art Museum
• University of Kentucky Art Museum

Aviation

• Aviation Museum of Kentucky

Biographical

• Bill Monroe Museum
• General George Patton Museum of Leadership
• Muhammad Ali Center
• Rosemary Clooney Museum
• U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum
• Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum

History

• Adsmore
• Ashland
• Bardstown Historical Museum
• Barthell Coal Mining Camp
• Big Sandy Heritage Center
• Blue Heron Coal Mining Camp
• Bluegrass Heritage Museum
• Civil War Museum
• Coal Miners' Museum
• David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum
• Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum
• Federal Hill
• The Filson Historical Society
• F.M. Stafford House
• Frazier History Museum
• Harland Sanders Café and Museum
• Highlands Museum and Discovery Center
• Historic Locust Grove
• Hunt–Morgan House
• Jeffersontown Historical Museum
• Kentucky Coal Museum
• Lexington History Center
• Magoffin County Pioneer Village and Museum
• Mary Todd Lincoln House
• McCreary County Museum
• Mountain Homeplace
• Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
• Portland Museum
• Riverside, The Farnsley–Moremen Landing
• Samuel May House
• Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History
• Thomas Edison House

Rail

• Bluegrass Railroad and Museum
• Elkhorn City Railroad Museum
• Historic Railpark and Train Museum
• Kentucky Railway Museum
• Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati

Religious

• Creation Museum
• Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill
• Shaker Museum at South Union

Science & technology

• East Kentucky Science Center
• Kentucky Science Center
• Kentucky River Museum
• National Corvette Museum

Sports

• Kentucky Derby Museum
• Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory

Miscellaneous

• Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
• Cumberland Inn & Museum
• International Bluegrass Music Museum
• Garrard County Jail Museum
• Vent Haven Museum

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