WHERE IDEAS GROW

for [Music] [Music] it's a long way from a blacksmith simple flame to the awesome thrust of a rocket roaring into space and it's a long way down from a circling satellite to the planet Earth but from 200 mil in space infrared photography reveals a figure nipped in at the waist by two Great Rivers the basic reason why one tiny state has always been a place where ideas grow [Music] set between Rivers offering the finest sea ports on the Atlantic coast our story grew outward from those waterways to the West is Philadelphia on the Delaware River to the east on the Hudson is New York from earliest days New Jersey reaped many benefits from sharing both great cities and harbors [Music] on the pathway between them generations of thinkers dreamers and innovators have come together to debate to test ideas it was so in colonial days and it has remained so through all the years of the state's existence [Music] this place has attracted many kinds of people from many lands people with ideas and Ambitions they found in New Jersey opportunities to live and work in [Music] Freedom the state is still a magnet for people with ideas it is not happen stance that it attracts and keeps far more than its logical share of research scientists and [Music] technicians men and women of Ingenuity find room to grow along the well-traveled pathway this is the familiar New Jersey known to millions of people but often too lightly dismissed by those who pass through it within that familiar Corridor are most of its [Music] cities most of its people [Music] most of its more than 600 Research Laboratories and thousands of Industries [Music] most of its colleges and [Music] universities this is the vital Corridor the place teaming with ideas and dreams with problems and opportunities Ingenuity and dreams need variety and space in which to grow from Mere ideas to a fruition that will serve Humanity New Jersey has that variety rugged mountains in the Northwestern part of the state Hills that rise slowly from the cross state Corridor lakelands of Rich [Music] Beauty an amazingly large and diversified Farm [Music] economy sprawling Pine Barons still a place of mystery and [Music] history a seashore known throughout [Music] America the sea rolls on as it has since the earliest settlers Dar ADV Venture on its surging [Music] waves these settlers found New Jersey's Diversified Terrain to their liking many wrote that it was just like home they came from many lands from many levels of society they would use their skills their Ingenuity to Fashion a new [Music] land these settlers had a stubborn Independence and pride in their work [Music] Artisans using tools and methods primitive by modern standards created an age of craftsmanship [Music] [Music] Ingenuity gave their work individuality muscles provided their power the independence of frontier life gave way to single-purpose Villages such as batto deep in the pine Barons here in a village that has survived time in the elements workers mined and forged soft bog iron [Music] soon muscle power was not enough water power gave industry its first new impetus [Music] water power became the means for America to grow Alexander Hamilton and several Associates in 1791 used the Roaring power of a pic Falls to found Patterson America's first planned industrial city Patterson made cotton silk locomotives and Air airplane engines in succession to give the city an unprecedented industrial Outreach in Patterson were made locomotives that literally ran around the world climbing mountains in South America Japan China Canada and Europe lucky Lindy trusted a Patterson made engine to carry him to Paris in 1927 and Patterson work winds powered bombers over Berlin and Tokyo in World War II in the era of water and steam power factories were cramped and dingy being linked to shafts open pulley and hazardous flapping belts one man Thomas a Edison developed in New Jersey a new source of power so desperately need Ed by a world reaching for growth his energy system was destined to remake the world Thomas Edison led a parade of ingenious people who develop [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] and heard at the Museum this early record was an Edison [Music] favorite Glory of coming of the lording out where the gra of the preservation of sound from Bak to rock owes much to Edison his black Mariah recreated at the Museum portrays Edis development of Motion Pictures cameras projectors and even story plots moving on rollers to follow the sun Black Mariah provided light for interior scenes it was the world's first movie [Music] studio Edison clearly changed the nature and thrust of the industrial World more than any other man to his time tributes to Edison's genius poured into West [Music] Orange from Paris a statue of light from record makers who depicted orus replacing his liar with a record from copper makers who sent a solid block of copper from Japan where a set of lanterns came in simple tribute Edison's remarkable life ended just before 3:30 a.m. on October 18th 1931 his accomplishments proved that in New Jersey ideas could grow other ingenious people followed one John Wesley Hyatt came to perfect the world's first plastic cellular Hyatt came from Albany seeking a substitute for Ivory in billiard balls moving to New York he opened a factory which made Celluloid into billiard balls shirt colors and many other useful products including Motion Picture film for Edison and others bite was the second practice iCal plastic its inventor Leo bakeland began experiments with synthetic resin and in 1910 moved to Perth Amoy and then to boundbrook to develop his new substance Nite became a wellknown product in the 1920s being widely used in the just emerging world of radio soon it was used in automobiles flashlights and even hard hats engineer it breathes Ingenuity Minds here turn to chemicals and to Medicine throughout history Physicians and druggists were groping too often helplessly to ease suffering medication had changed little in hundreds of years [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] but the world of medicine has been been transformed incredibly in the past 40 years modern Wonder drugs dramatically attack diseases of all kinds New Jersey has been in the Forefront of every assault on infection hypertension cardiac problems tuberculosis arthritis and many other ills the state with reason is known as The Medicine Chest of America it is a leader in discovering new drugs it is also in the Forefront in developing preventives such as synthetic vitamins and vaccines as well as finding new medicines to attack old [Music] illnesses Dr Selman Waxman is a medical researcher who should be remembered a co-discoverer of strepto meyon and a Nobel Prize winner his work continues in The Institute of microbiology at ruurs the State University New Jersey is now heavily industrial any eye can tell that but the old days of ugly industrial buildings and surrounding rundown streets are fading this too is a matter of Ingenuity leaders here have pioneered in constructing industrial buildings that blend with the natural environment and fit in with Community planning and development [Music] Ingenuity spreads Beyond inventions or buildings or Laboratories it can be as simple as a boardwalk America's first was built at Atlantic City in 1870 to keep vacationers from tracking sand into hotel [Music] lobbies as ingenious as saltwater taffy known the world over as a Jersey Shore [Music] specialty Americans love to ski New Jersey has Fine slopes but snowfalls are often Limited [Music] ski resorts adapt they help develop snow makers to improve upon nature and extend their [Music] season Ingenuity keeps Farms thriving in the nation's most densely populated state rightfully nicknamed the Garden [Music] State in 1894 Charles sebr declared he would make it rain when the sky is blue above his Cumberland County Farm in 1911 he installed the first overhead irrigation system it was the Forerunner of modern systems which actually travel across large [Music] Fields harvesting farm products efficiently has been a challenge for many generations Garden State farmers have been in the Forefront in developing ingenious machines to pick vegetables and fruits [Music] machines in Southern New Jersey Fields quickly Harvest crops that are often packed then quick Frozen right on the farm [Music] even delicate blueberries are harvested by unique machines that pluck the Luscious fruit with nearly the depthness of human fingers the Ingenuity of a native of the p Barons Elizabeth white led to the world's first cultivated blueberries more than 60 years ago Miss White's work is perpetuated in many leading varieties that are named for her beloved Pine Barons and its people the pathway across the state has widened but remains no less vital for half a century the automobile was the emerging Giant now as America and the world seek fresh thinking to move people and products using as little energy as possible New Jersey has some bright new answers the high-speed metr liner developed to carry passengers between New York New Jersey and Washington was proved here all Road testing was performed between New Brunswick and Princeton Junction in the heavily populated northeastern part of the State Transportation is well into the ways of tomorrow here on path tracks runs the world's first fully airconditioned rapid transit system in the southwestern part of the state a fully automated train Glides from Lynden wall to Philadelphia this is PATCO a rapid transit line so startlingly ingenious that Transportation leaders from every part of the globe make pilgrimages here to study and ride the world's first automated rapid transit system one of the world's most unusual Transportation comp comp lexes is it newer here side by side are sea ports railroads super highways and airport so close together that a major league outfielder could throw a ball from Dockside to Runway Newark International is one of the nation's most modern airports [Music] it is so carefully designed that the comings and goings of millions of people each year is deceptively eased by new kinds of buildings and [Music] passageways one of the world's most modern sea ports at Newark and Elizabeth is a model of efficiency Port Elizabeth newly completed as the largest containerized operation on Earth is the first major sea port ever planned and built totally from vacant land to Modern operation containerization is the key to saving time saving energy protecting cargos and conserving space in shipment [Music] in terms of worldwide human impact one New Jersey achievement stands above all others the tiny transistor today it works all over the world at an astounding diversity of tasks [Music] we enjoy its countless benefits thanks to the Persistence of three Bell Labs scientists who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 for creating it Walter Bratton John Bine and William shley from their primitive lab model the transistor and its other solid state descendants have continually diminished in size until now a few grains of salt which resemble chunks of coal under the microscope overshadowed dozens of completely integrated [Music] circuits and these even tinier devices which govern actions of huge computers it is vital to note that tellar the world's first communication satellite was developed and built entirely in the Garden State the whole new era of solid state of many terization of computers is based upon New Jersey's tiny transistor Ingenuity takes many forms it is a matter of the big and the small the major and the minor the slow development and the dramatic emergence the int iy of modern research and the individual skills of the colonial Artisan Ingenuity Knows No Limits it doesn't die with the past it doesn't rest on [Music] History it is and will continue to be an everlasting asset each generation in turn becomes aware that Ingenuity is New Jersey's [Music] Hallmark this Ingenuity reaches around the world easing sickness extending Communications lessening barriers of space and economics improving people's lives combining the skilled craftsmanship of yesterday with a knowledge of today's research to benefit Humanity tomorrow permitting Enterprise to meet the needs of people lifting Spirits encouraging mankind Ingenuity long may it thrive in New Jersey where ideas grow [Music]