Calle Edison

The name pays tribute to Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, and died in 1931, one of the inventors who most transformed everyday life between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To him we owe the phonograph, decisive improvements for cinema, and the incandescent lamp that brought electric light into homes. He amassed nearly eleven hundred patents and earned the nickname “the Wizard of Menlo Park,” after the New Jersey laboratory where he strung together many of his discoveries. The street belongs to the El Viso neighborhood, built mostly in the 1930s. It is a short stem, born where Núñez de Balboa and Castelló meet at its end.