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Steamboat invented by John Fitch shown on Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, which was demonstrated on August 22, 1787, to delegates from the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia. In 1790, Fitch began operating a steam-powered boat with up to 30 paying passengers on round-trips between Philadelphia and Burlington. Image: Library of Congress
Drawing of Gloucester Iron Works circa 1840. Image: Scientific American
Great Falls on Passaic River in Paterson, which was source of water power for industrial city proposed by Alexander Hamilton to be developed by private company Society for Establishment of Useful Manufactures, chartered by New Jersey in 1791. Image: National Park Service CC by SA 2.0
Drawing depicting Balbach Smelting & Refining Co. in Newark in 1870. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Newark Public Library
Drawing of first locomotive in America built by Colonel John Stevens and demonstrated in 1826 on a private track built on his estate in Hoboken. Image: Stevens Institute of Technology
D.W. Lanings Iron Foundry in Bridgeton as depicted in drawing published in 1869. Image: National Park Service
Drawings depicting workers and looms at Clark's Thread Co. in Newark published 1889. Image: Scientific American
Engraving of Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. in Camden in 1894. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Six-year-old and nine-year-old boys from Philadelphia picking cranberries in Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, in 1910. Image: Library of Congress
Mass meeting of strikers during Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 to hear speeches by strike leaders from balcony at Botto House in Haledon. Image: American Labor Museum
Ford Motor Co. Assembly Plant in Edgewater constructed between 1929 and 1931, considered the most advanced and efficient automobile assembly plant for its time. The plant was closed in 1955 and replaced by a new plant in Mahwah, which was shut down in 1980. Image: Ford Motor Co.
Launch of US Navy destroyers USS Radford and USS Fletcher on May 3, 1942 built at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Kearny. Image: US Navy/Wikimedia Commons
Replica of the first transistor, invented at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, and demonstrated for the first time on December 23, 1947. Image: Wikimedia Commons/National Archives
Original building of Johnson & Johnson, founded 1886 in New Brunswick. Image: KilmerHouse.org
Lithograph of Janeway & Carpender wallpaper factory in New Brunswick circa 1880-1890. Image: Library of Congress
Thomas Edison in his laboratory at West Orange in 1901. Image: Library of Congress
Workers, including boys, at Wheaton Glass in Bridgeton in 1909. Image: Library of Congress
Women workers with bolts of finished silk in Paterson factory in 1914. Image: Library of Congress
Six men lying on the ground awaiting ambulances after being shot during a strike at the Williams & Clark Fertilizing Company in what is now Carteret on April 13, 1915. Image: Library of Congress
Men wait in line in April 1935 to apply for work wielding a pick and shovel on Newark subway excavation project for $4 for a 10-hour day. Image: US Department of State
Workers at Switlik Parachute Co. in Trenton, largest supplier of parachutes during World War II, including making the one used by future President George H. W. Bush when he was shot down over the Pacific in September 1944. Image: Switlik Parachute Co.
View from air of suburban housing and retail development typical of post-World War II growth. Image: New Jersey Future
Label of Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. founded 1869, foreunner of Campbell Soup Co. established 1896 in Camden. Image: Camden County
Prudential insurance Co. of America ad circa 1900 featuring drawing of its Newark headquarters building superimposed on the Rock of Gibraltar. Image: Scribner's Magazine
1913 poster of the International Workers of the World promoting the Madison Square Garden pageant to benefit the striking Paterson silk workers. Image: Pinterest/Bergen.org
Strikers shown throwing stones at police in Bayonne during strike at refineries of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Tidewater Petroleum plants which began in 1915 and resumed in following year. Image: Library of Congress
Unemployed workers in Haddonfield during Great Depression in 1934. Image: Library of Congress
Parade of unemployed workers demanding jobs in Camden in 1935. Image: National Archives
Ad published in 1944 for Dumont Laboratories in Passaic, an early maker of televisions and broadcaster with studios in Manhattan. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com
Technology Centre of New Jersey, a state government supported incubator for technology firms. Image: NJ Economic Development Authority
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