Edison Storage Battery Company Building, is located at 177 Main Street and Lakeside Avenue in West Orange, Essex County,

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, United States. The building was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

on February 28, 1996. The building was a manufacturing facility for

Edison Storage Battery Company The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized in New Jersey on May 27, 1901. Edison Storage Battery Division label. The Edison Storage Battery was filed for patent in November 1900 and launched publicly on May 21, 1901. Building Edison Stor ...

to make nickel-iron batteries developed by

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventi ...

in 1901. Manufacturing began around 1903 and was discontinued in 1975 when Edison Storage was sold to

Exide Exide was originally a brand name for batteries produced by The Electric Storage Battery Company and later became Exide Corporation doing business as Exide Technologies, an American multinational lead-acid batteries manufacturing company. It ...

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