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New Jersey's Firsts

Did you know that...

  • The first practical incandescent electric lamp was perfected, one mile from our offices.

  • Edison invented the phonograph and the first motion picture camera picture and projector.

  • One-quarter of the country's destroyers were made during World War II.

  • The first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur was discovered. This is the discovery that scientifically proved that dinosaurs had really existed and began the science of studying dinosaur fossils - modern paleontology.

  • Streptomycin was discovered in 1943 .

  • In 1918 Marconi's radio station, the world's most powerful, was stationed.

  • The first balloon flight in America took place in 1793.

  • The first ferry service in the United States operated in 1811.

  • The first organized baseball game was played on October 31, 1846.

  • The first intercollegiate football team was played between Rutgers and Princeton on Nov 6, 1869.

  • The first professional basketball game was played in 1896.

  • The world's first belt conveyor to carry ore was built.

  • The first submarine was built in 1878.

  • The first boardwalk was built in 1879 in Atlantic City.

  • The first airplane passenger service was inaugurated on May 3, 1919.

  • The World Series live radio broadcast was carried.

  • The Miss America pageant first started and is still held.

  • The first drive-in movie theater was built in 1933.

  • Jackie Robinson broke the organized baseball color line by playing in his first International League game.

  • The first coast-to-coast direct distance dialing was inaugurated.

  • The first robot used to replace a human worker was used.

  • The first nuclear-power commercial ship was launched.

  • The first Colt revolver was developed in Paterson in 1836.

  • The first log cabin, built in Swedesboro in the 1640s.

  • The first steam locomotive built in Hoboken in 1824 by Colonel John Stevens.

  • The first road sheet asphalt pavement laid in Newark in 1870.

  • The first town to be lighted by electricity was Roselle.

  • The first cultivated blueberries in 1916.

  • The first brewery in America in 1642.

  • The first national historic park created in 1933 in Morristown.

  • Is first in average value of farmlands and buildings per acre.