DescriptionBorn May 2, 1773 in North Branch, New Jersey, James Ten Eyck passed his days as a farmer in Somerset County. As a farmer, Ten Eyck understood the importance of farm machinery, which led Ten Eyck to...
DescriptionCirca 1848 broadside of Hall’s Brick Machine. In it, Hall claims his machine has produced three hundred million bricks in the last five months. The Brick Machine was on exhibit during the Fair at...
DescriptionRadio Corporation of America (RCA) was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The booklet entitled “The RCA Laboratories” was prepared by RCA’s Laboratories Division to...
DescriptionIn the late 1870s, Peter Stillwell, Agent for Monmouth County, Marlboro, New Jersey for Marshall & Websters commissioned a broadside of Excelsior Feed for horses and cattle. Within the advertisement,...
DescriptionCirca 1827 broadside of a “Reaping, Cutting and Gathering Machine” most likely of James Ten Eyck. Born May 2, 1773 in North Branch, New Jersey, James Ten Eyck passed his days as a farmer in...
DescriptionVictor Talking Machine Company (1901–1929) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world...
DescriptionOn December 10, 1889, Mr. V. H. Emerson of Newark, New Jersey, an "electrician of long experience," demonstrated Thomas A. Edison's phonograph to the greater public of Hightstown, New Jersey. The...
DescriptionIn February 1872, Washington Augustus Roebling looked on as a caisson for the New York and Brooklyn Bridge (later known as the East River Bridge and subsequently the Brooklyn Bridge for short) was...
