Menlo Park
Phonograph birthplace town
Menlo Park is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, known primarily as the headquarters of Meta (formerly Facebook) and a hub of Silicon Valley's tech industry.
The name also evokes Thomas Edison's famous laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he developed the phonograph and practical incandescent light bulb in the 1870s.
Several major venture capital firms have offices in Menlo Park.
Prolific American inventor
- inventorCreator of original devices
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- lightbulbElectric illumination source
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
patents · electricity · incandescent · innovation · genius · industrialization · kinetoscope · New Jersey
West coast megastate
- Bay AreaNorthern California metropolitan region
- Palo AltoCalifornia tech city
- suburbOutlying residential district
- residentialRelating to housing
affluent · El Camino Real · downtown · real estate · commute · Ravenswood · tree-lined streets
Dominant social media platform
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- Stanford UniversityCalifornia research institution
- tech campusCompany grounds for startups
Mark Zuckerberg · headquarters · IPO · angel investor · incubator · accelerator · entrepreneurship · unicorn
Thomas Edison
Prolific American inventor
- inventorCreator of original devices
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- lightbulbElectric illumination source
laboratory · patents · electricity · incandescent · innovation · genius · industrialization · kinetoscope · New Jersey · historical landmark
California
West coast megastate
- Bay AreaNorthern California metropolitan region
- Palo AltoCalifornia tech city
- suburbOutlying residential district
residential · affluent · El Camino Real · downtown · real estate · commute · Ravenswood · tree-lined streets
Dominant social media platform
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- Stanford UniversityCalifornia research institution
tech campus · Mark Zuckerberg · headquarters · IPO · angel investor · incubator · accelerator · entrepreneurship · unicorn · tech giants
- Bay Area PlacesSan Jose, Fremont, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino
- EdisonThomas Edison, Edison, inventor, phonograph, light bulb
- tech hubsSilicon Valley, Austin, Seattle, Boston, Bangalore
- invention siteslaboratory, workshop, Bell Labs, university lab, engineering lab
- Inventor Museums
- Middlesex CountyWoodbridge, Edison, Fords
Menlo ParkDetroit
Michigan automotive hub
Rust Belt · Austin · Youngstown · Gary Indiana · Wall Street
Menlo Parkskid row
Impoverished urban district
Oakland · Richmond · Stockton · Detroit · Appalachia