Jason Weiss

New Jersey Firsts

Tinta regada
1 de mayo de 2025

                   

First log cabin, Swedesboro, 1642.

First Indian reservation, Burlington County, 1758.

First comic book, Red Bank, 1799.

First ferry service, Hoboken-Manhattan, 1811.

First roller skates, Jersey City, 1820.

First steam locomotive, Hoboken, 1824.

First exploding cigar, Morristown, 1831.

First Colt revolver, Paterson, 1836.

First billboard, Trenton, 1854.

First nearly complete dinosaur skeleton found, Haddonfield, 1858.

First boardwalk, Atlantic City, 1870.

First asphalt road, Newark, 1870.

First celluloid, Newark, 1870.

First phonograph, Menlo Park, 1877.

First submarine, Passaic, 1878.

First motion picture, Menlo Park, 1889.

First submarine sandwich, Long Branch, 1902.

First electric crosswalk sign, Rahway, 1908.

First happy hour, Vineland, 1918.

First airplane passenger service, Atlantic City, 1919.

First drive-in movie theater, Camden County, 1933.

First solid body electric guitar, Mahwah, 1940.

First robot to replace a human worker, Ewing Township, 1961.

First device (vacuum cleaner) powered by brain waves, Princeton, 1966.

First successful hair implant, Monroe Township, 1973.

Jason Weiss, ganador del premio Ecos en tinta 2025, es autor, crítico, traductor, editor y profesor. Asistió U.C. Berkeley en los años 70, pasó la década de los 80 en París y ha vivido en Brooklyn desde los 90. Tiene un doctorado en literatura comparada de New York University. His  most recent book, Other Lives Our Own, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2025. Su páginaweb es Itineraries of a Hummingbird.