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In 1880 Edison moved back to New York City to oversee the installation of his lighting system and to help create a manufacturing company. (In 1892 that company became, by merger, General Electric.) By 1886 he was eager to get back to the laboratory.
In West Orange, New Jersey, he built a new facility and began work in the fall of 1887, the year of his 40th birthday. It was ten times larger than Menlo Park and, according to Edison, "could do ten times as big things."
But changes in Edison's world, and changes in Edison, intervened. With the success of his incandescent light, Edison became a legend. Demands on his time came from all quarters. Edison also remarried after the death of his first wife and decided to spend more time with his family. And in the 1880s, dramatic changes were sweeping through the field of electrical technology.
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