Olefson Design Recycled Jewelry Optical Lense Pendants New Jersey Firsts and Witticisms

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first drive-in,1932, Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., Camden

first solid state electric guitar, Les Paul, 1940

first baseball game, Hoboken

first collegiate football game, between Princeton and Rutgers

first professional basketball game

first condensed soup

first electric bulb (phonograph, too)

first to sign bill of rights

first can of beer (first American brewery to sell beer in cans)

first “first aid” kit, Johnson and Johnson

first boardwalk, Atlantic City

more diners than any other state (600)

the oldest operating U.S. reactor, first commercial nuclear plant

first saltwater taffy was produced at the Jersey shore in the 1870s

first revovler

first Indian reservation

first seashore resort of cape may

first first aid kits, johnson and johnson

The world's first First Aid Kit, 1890, is brought to market by Johnson & Johnson. Called "Johnson's First Aid Cabinet," the kit included antiseptic dressings, surgical supplies, wound care implements,

• First state to sign the bill of rights
• First movie, "Fred Ott's Sneeze" (he was Thomas Edison's assistant)
• First drive-in movies, Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr, Camden, 1932

• First baseball game, Hoboken
• First collegiate football game, between Princeton vs Rutgers
• First solid state electric guitar, Les Paul, 1933

• First canned soup

• First canned beer, Kreuger's, Newark,

• First boardwalk, Atlantic City

• First diners built (White Manna/Hackensack; Summit Diner; Tick-Tock Diner/Clifton; Freehold Diner; Bendix Diner; Circus Drive-in; Short-Stop Diner and more...

• Oldest operating U.S. reactor, Oyster Creek