Every decade we migrate and update our website for the new generations. Currently we may have some pages down as we migrate our main site www.EDISONTECHCENTER.org to a new platform. In a world of AI generated content that draws upon a plethora of dubious sources, our pages are human-created and come from historical documents or in-the-field reporting. Please be patient as we rework and update our pages to better serve the next generation of users. Thanks! Feel free to support our effort using our new donation tools.

This summer the Edison Tech Center modernized its methods to help supporters contribute to the cause. Our Treasurer William Kornrumpf has set up a new Paypal account for our fans. We used to sell DVDs to help raise money for our Oral History program (called Tech Reflections and the GE Family Album). We did not release many long form videos on line as they were a part of this paid system. Now that DVDs are obsolete we have moved to a popular tipping app that many YouTubers have used called “Buy Me A Coffee”. This system encourages small easy donations the size of a cup of coffee from viewers who really enjoyed our unique engineering history content.

Feel free to use our new methods:

• Support our mission using our updated Paypal Account >
• Support our work with a small tip using BuyMeACoffee.com Here >

We’d like to thank the hundreds of people who have contributed to the Edison Tech Center over the years, whether through large donations, or a few dollars.

This year the Edison Tech Center is working on several projects including restoring 501(c)3 status and finding a new physical home in Schenectady. In the last few years Edison moved from an old building on Broadway in downtown Schenectady to a temporary location at the Gazette Building on Maxon Road. Artifacts were stored efficiently and visits were by appointment only. We hope to once again open up our incredible collection to the public in a new building. Our collection consists of all types of electrical and mechanical devices, often showing a gradual progression of technologies. To execute our vision we are using 2025 as a reorganization year where leadership will create a plan with priorities for the team to execute. 

The collection takes up several thousand square feet:

The digital education program online has never stopped operating and continues to reach many thousands of people each month. We have reorganized our digital media library so that we are set to make new video releases on a regular basis. Our unique media archives feature interviews with engineers who contributed to our technological world. Through oral history and edited documentaries this material reaches people who have an interest in tinkering, engineering and general history. We’d like to thank the “Hall of Electrical History” or GE Hall of History for working with us over the years on documentaries.