Linda J Barth: 2 books
New Jersey Originals
Technological Marvels, Odd Inventions, Trailblazing Characters and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
New Jersey's institutional research accolades are renowned--medical inventions at Johnson & Johnson, the genius of Edison Labs and fourteen Nobel Prizes to Bell Labs scientists. But beyond those behemoths of innovation lie many more breakthroughs and firsts. In 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played...
A History of Inventing in New Jersey
From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Many Americans are familiar with Thomas Edison's "invention factory" in Menlo Park, where he patented the phonograph, the light bulb and more than one thousand other items. Yet many other ideas have grown in the Garden State, too--New Jerseyans brought sound and music to movies and built the very first...