NOPE, Booze wins......
Along with $$$$$$$$ and favors, Menlo Park was THE PLACE to Visit from 1877 to 1882, Tom was the ROCK STAR of the '80's and every event was staged for the media and financial backers. Plus a rail line went no more than 1/4 mile from the Lab complex and he lit up the farmlands in grid style at nite to ohhhhh and ahhhh the people as they rode by in a train. Too bad he became more eccentric later in life and after 1st wife died