MENLO PARK, 1876
Edison built a factory
for inventions.
Now it fits on a desk.
01 · EDISON
A minor invention every ten days.
In 1876 Thomas Edison opened a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and called it his invention factory. He promised “a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so.” The phonograph and a practical electric light came out of it, along with a bigger idea: that inventing could be organized like work.
02 · AI
The machinery changed.
A century and a half later, software can read, write, reason, and act. Agents draft, build, test, and keep the records. One curious person with a question in the morning can have a working prototype by evening. The factory no longer needs a building.
03 · ME
I wanted to be an inventor. I still do.
I’m Max Faingezicht. I grew up in Costa Rica taking toys apart to see how they worked. Today I run a small invention factory of my own, with AI agents on the floor, and I keep a notebook of what comes out of it: what works, what breaks, and what I learn.