By 1884, following the death of his wife and increased periods of absence, Edison finally closed the lab at Menlo Park and moved to New York.

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No sooner had Tobii set up its eyeball booth than Splenetics, of Menlo Park, appeared, hot off an all-nighter in the lab, paying at the door and setting up at the other end of the North Hall to showcase a TV technology that replaces the remote with your spleen.

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