New Jersey's Technology Legacy

The NJTC is working on a project to identify and highlight the most significant technology “inventions” that are attributed to research done in New Jersey.

Please share your thoughts on what you believe to be the most significant.

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Permalink Reply by James Scott on October 14, 2008 at 10:52pm

Every modem ever made (after 1985) was developed and tested using equipment developed by Eatontown NJ based Telecom Analysis System (now Spirent Communications). Every device transmitting data wirelessly or over any wired line has been developed and tested using equipment developed by the engineers at Spirent Communications in Eatontown.

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Permalink Reply by Steven L. Lubetkin on November 4, 2008 at 6:44am

We should certainly start at the base of the technological revolution -- the transistor was invented at Bell Labs in Murray Hill or Holmdel, was it not? And there was groundbreaking communications research done by the US Army Electronics Command (ECOM) at Ft. Monmouth.