The Polytechnic Museum (Russian: Политехнический музей ) is one of the oldest science museums in the world, located in Moscow that emphasizes the progress of Russian and Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions and developments.
 It was founded in 1872 after the first All-Russian Technical Exhibition on the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great at the initiative of the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.
 The first stage of the museum was designed by Ippolit Monighetti and completed in 1877.
 Almost from the beginning, the collection was too big for the space.
 The north wing was added in 1896 and the south wing in 1907.
 At present the main building of the museum (Novaya sq., 3/4) is closed for reconstruction.
 The opening of the renovated museum in this building is scheduled for 2018.
 From 2013 and for the whole period of renovation the museum will work in partnership venues in Moscow.
The National Building was constructed from late 1904 to mid 1905 by the Northern Pacific Railway as part of the road's multimillion-dollar plan to improve their many Seattle properties and capitalize on the city's booming commission trade.
 One of the building's first tenants was the National Grocery Company which at first only occupied two of the building's eight stores and would later occupy the entire building, becoming its namesake.
 It would occupy the building until 1930.
 The building was later home to many small manufacturing and distributing firms and has been an office building since the late 1960s.
When Lyndon State College relocated to its new home on the top of Vail Hill in 1951, the library that had been at the nearby Lyndon Institute (where the college began as a teacher education program) was moved to Vail Manor and housed in one of the mansion's twin towers.
 Twelve thousand volumes were moved by hand in one weekend.
 In 1965, the library expanded into its own building in what is now the Harvey Academic Center.
 Lyndon Professor Emeritus and Vermont state senator Graham S. Newell selected Samuel Read Hall as the library’s namesake.
 In 1972, the current library building was opened, and in 1980, the building won a design award from the American Institute of Architects for being a “bridge” from one side of campus to the other.
 By 1994, however, the library and the college had both outgrown their space, and so the decision was made to expand the library building into what would become known as the Library Academic Center, or LAC.
 The renovated building, which opened in 1995, added one floor of library space and one floor of classrooms.
Metropolitan Edison Building is a historic office building located at Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
 It was built in 1926-1927, and is a 12-story, "L"-shaped, steel frame building faced with Indiana limestone, brick, and terra cotta reflective of the Chicago style.
 It stands 150 feet tall.
 A five-story addition was completed in 1956.
 The building measures 119 feet, 8 inches, by 169 feet, 6 inches.
 It was the original home of the Metropolitan Edison Company, Gilbert-Commonwealth, and the CNA Insurance Company.
The Consolidated Edison Building, also previously known as the Consolidated Gas Building, is a Neoclassical skyscraper built in 1928.
 Designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Hardenbergh, construction began in 1926 for the future headquarters of Consolidated Edison.
 The building, located at 4 Irving Place, takes up the entire block between East 14th and 15th Streets and Irving Place and Third Avenue.
Dickson Greeting is an 1891 American short silent film.
 Directed, produced by, and starring motion-picture pioneer William K. L. Dickson, it displays a 3-second clip of him passing a hat in front of himself, and reaching for it with his other hand.
 It was filmed on May 20, 1891 in the Photographic Building at Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, in collaboration with Thomas Edison using his kinetograph.
 The film was played for viewers at the National Federation of Women's Clubs, one of the first public presentations of a motion picture.
The Peter Kirk Building, first known as the Kirkland Investment Company Building, is a historic building in Kirkland, Washington located at the corner of Market Street and Seventh Avenue, Kirkland's historic commercial core.
 It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 It was built in 1889 by the city's founder and namesake Peter Kirk, who constructed the building as the centerpiece of his planned steel producing city.
 Following the panic of 1893, the building remained occupied but fell into disrepair by the 1960s.
 The building was rescued from demolition in the early 1960s by a syndicate led by William Radcliffe who purchased and restored the Peter Kirk Building into the Kirkland Arts Center which it remains to this day.
 Today it is one of Kirkland's most historic and symbolic structures.
The Edison Building is a 1960s office building in Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
 Located at 5 Lindsley Street in the community of Falconbridge, the building was constructed in 1969 as the head office for Falconbridge Ltd.'s operations in the Sudbury area.
 The building was named after Thomas Edison, who was credited with the original ore discovery in the Falconbridge area.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
 He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
 Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Manhattan Loft Corporation is a London-based property development company, based in the Edison building in Marylebone, London, and led by founder and CEO Harry Handelsman.

Question: What was one of the inventions of the namesake for The Edison Building?
Answer: the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb