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Thomas Edison House, Louisville, KY

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Thomas Edison House

Museum in Louisville's Butchertown neighborhood honoring Edison's years living and working in the city.

Louisville, KY

About Thomas Edison House

The house sits in Butchertown, a Louisville neighborhood long tied to the city's meatpacking trade. Edison lived nearby while working as a telegraph operator in the 1860s, and his early telegraph work shaped his later inventions. The museum displays early light bulbs, phonographs, Edison business equipment, and a Kinetoscope, the first home motion picture projector. The cottage dates to about 1850 and was built as a shotgun duplex.

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