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A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone

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Many Americans are conversant in Thomas Edison’s “invention factory” in Menlo Park, where he patented the phonograph, the light bulb and a couple of 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 first actual drive-in theater. Along with the first cultivated blueberry, tasty treats like ice cream cones and M&Ms are also Jersey natives. Iconic aspects of American life, like the batting cage, catcher’s mask and even professional baseball itself, began in New Jersey. Life would be so much harder without the vacuum cleaner, plastic and Band-Aids, and lots of vital advances in medicine and surgery were also developed here. Sign up for writer Linda Barth as she explores groundbreaking, useful, fun and even silly inventions and their New Jersey roots.

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