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GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. TORRES, Mr. BISHOP, Mr.
DELLUMS, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr. FIELDS of Louisiana,
Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. HOYER, Mr. CLAY, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. RICHARDSON,
Mr. HEFNER, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. VALENTINE, Mr. HALL
of Ohio, Mr. STOKES, Mr. BLACKWELL, Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. MARGOLIES-
MEZVINSKY, Mr. PICKLE, Mr. PAYNE of Virginia, Mr. SWIFT, Mr. SAND-
ERS, Mr. STENHOLM, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. NADLER, Mr. OWENS, Mr.
PAYNE of New Jersey, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. ANDREWS of Maine, Mr.
POMEROY, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. FAZIO,
Mr. STARK, Mrs. MINK, Mr. POSHARD, Mr. MFUME, Mr. BONIOR, Ms.
SLAUGHTER, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. LANCASTER, Mr. ROSE, Mr. AN-
DREWS of Texas, Mr. BRYANT, Mr. BROOKS, Mr. TEJEDA, Mr. SCOTT,
Mr. DOOLEY, Mr. MILLER of California, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. CONYERS,
Mr. LEVIN, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. CLEMENT,
Mr. COOPER, Mrs. LLOYD, Mr. WILSON, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. EDWARDS of
California, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. EVANS, Mr. STUDDS, Mr.
WHEAT, Mr. MANTON, Mr. KOPETSKI, Mr. KREIDLER, Mr. WISE, Mr.
KLECZKA, Mr. ZIMMER, Mr. EHLERS, Ms. ENGLISH of Arizona, Mr.
MAZZOLI, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. TANNER, Mr. DE
LA
GARZA, Mr.
MCDERMOTT, Mr. DE LUGO, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. SYNAR,
Ms. MOLINARI, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. STUPAK, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr.
LEWIS of California, Mr. WATT, Mr. ROWLAND, Mr. HAYES, Mr.
MCCLOSKEY, Mr. FOGLIETTA, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. BEVILL,
Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. SHARP, and Mr. CARR of Michigan
OCTOBER 7, 1994
Committee on Post Office and Civil Service discharged; considered and agreed
to
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Recognizing Belleville, New Jersey, as the birthplace of the
industrial revolution in the United States.
Whereas, in 1753, Josiah Hornblower, an English engineer
who was an associate and rival of James Watt, assembled
the 1st functioning steam engine in the Western Hemi-
sphere in Belleville, New Jersey, to pump water from the
Schuyler copper mines;
Whereas, approximately 40 years after such assembly, the 1st
steam engine made in the United States was manufac-
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tured in a foundry in Belleville from designs by Josiah
Hornblower;
Whereas the designs were commissioned by Nicholas Roo-
sevelt, who was the great-uncle of Franklin Delano Roo-
sevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, to power the Polacca,
which was the 1st experimental steamboat in the United
States;
Whereas the Polacca negotiated the Passaic River on October
21, 1798, which was several years before Robert Fulton’s
boat, Clermont, sailed the Hudson River;
Whereas historians herald the invention of the steam engine
as the beginning of the industrial revolution;
Whereas the presence of Josiah Hornblower in Belleville
brought many of the initiators of the industrial revolution
in the United States to Belleville;
Whereas such individuals included members of the Rutgers
family, many of whom are buried in the cemetery of the
old Dutch Reformed Church in Belleville; and
Whereas Belleville has a rightful claim to the title ‘‘Birth-
place of the American Industrial Revolution’’: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That—
(1) the Congress recognizes Belleville, New Jer-
sey, as the birthplace of the industrial revolution in
the United States; and
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(2) the President is authorized and requested to
issue a proclamation honoring Belleville as such
birthplace.
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