Inventions in New Jersey

Discover 6 places tagged “inventions” in New Jersey.

Holmdel, New Jersey

Bell Laboratories Transistor Water Tower

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Edison's desk, which has remained untouched since the day he died.

West Orange, New Jersey

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Edison concrete houses along Polk Street in Gary, Indiana

Montclair, New Jersey

Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Close up of the light bulb

Edison, New Jersey

Menlo Park Lightbulb

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

At night, dwarfed by the Goldman Sachs building. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jersey City, New Jersey

The Colgate Clock

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

The sluice leading to the mill wheel leaks profusely, creating an ice cave underneath the scaffolding from around December to February. (Joel Simpson/Atlas Obscura)

Chester, New Jersey

Cooper's Mill

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

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