Along with Glenmont, the laboratory is now part of Edison National Historic Site and is run by the National Park Service. Edison spends most of his time at his iron ore mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, where he tries to invent a method of separating the ore from rock. The mine is his biggest failure. He loses millions of dollars. But the success of his phonograph and motion pictures keeps him in business.
People pay a nickel to look through a small hole at a very short movie.
A few years later, people watch movies in theaters on big movie screens. Movies are considered the last of Edison's Top Three Inventions . The Spanish-American War is fought. Edison films show soldiers leaving to fight. Like many other Americans around this time, Edison discovers the automobile.