New Jersey women did not vote again until over 100 years after that. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light and the motion screen, was a resident of New Jersey. Today, the state is home to the Edison Museum. Two of Edison's lesser known inventions include wax paper and the talking doll. New Jersey still remains a state with a great priority on research, development, and inventions.
New Jersey is the birthplace of high technology.
Here, Einstein unraveled the mysteries of the universe, and Edison patented over 1,000 inventions. Today, the state is awarded over 3,000 patents each year, second in the nation on a per capita basis. On the same basis, New Jersey has the highest concentration of scientists, technicians, and engineers in the nation. John Stevens, of Hoboken, built the county's first locomotive when he was seventy-six years of age. In 1933, the world's first drive-in theater opened outside of Camden.