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July 8, 1848

The Shrewsbury Inlet Closes – For Good

On July 8th, 1848, the Shrewsbury Inlet closed for the last time, converting Sandy Hook from an island back to a peninsula for good.  Over the decades, storms and shifting sands resulted in the inlet closing and reopening several times....
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September 30, 1899

Guglielmo Marconi Demonstrates Wireless Telegraph in the U.S.

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist and inventor of wireless telegraph. In 1909 he received the Nobel Prize for physics, shared with Ferdinand Braun. On September 30, 1899, Marconi first utilized his wireless telegraph technology in the U.S., following successful...
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August 10, 1910

The Wright Brothers Bring Aviation to Monmouth County

On August 10, 1910, the Wright Brothers came to Monmouth County to stage “America’s Greatest Aviation Meet.” It was designed to be a grand exhibition of manned heavier-than-air flight using the aviation system the Wrights created. The aircraft, called the...
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May 4, 1933

Karl G. Jansky, the Father of Radio Astronomy

On May 4, 1933, Bell Labs announced that one of their scientists working in the Holmdel facility had succeeded in detecting radio waves from the Milky Way galaxy, a breakthrough that signaled the birth of a new field of science...
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October 24, 1936

Albert Einstein Visits the Utopian Community He Helped Create

Timeline story by Yvette Florio Lane On October 24, 1936, Albert Einstein, arguably the world’s best-known scientist, was among a small group of public intellectuals and social influencers who attended the opening of an experiment in planned communal living in...
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September 2, 1945

Dr. Walter McAfee: Camp Evans Mathematician, Scholar, and Scientist

Editor’s note: On September 2, 1945, documents were signed finalizing the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the United States and Allied Forces, ending World War II. Within days, with victory assured, scientists at leading research centers such as...
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January 10, 1946

Project Diana: The Beginning of the Space Age

Editor’s note: The following article is reprinted with permission from the InfoAge Science & History Museums website at InfoAge.org.  The InfoAge complex houses a surprising array of museums and exhibits on a variety of subjects, but it is also a...
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June 25, 1946

Russell S. Ohl, Inventor of the Silicon Solar Cell

On June 25, 1946, the U.S. patent office approved an application from Bell Labs for a silicon solar cell invented by Russell S. Ohl, which became U.S. Patent No. US2,402,662A, “Light sensitive device.”  It was one of more than 130...
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December 18, 1958

SCORE, The World’s First “Talking” Satellite

On December 18, 1958, the world's first "talking" satellite was successfully launched, a product of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth in conjunction with the then-new Advanced Research Projects Agency.  Called "SCORE," which stands for “Signal Communications...
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April 1, 1960

TIROS-1: The World’s First Weather Satellite

On April 1, 1960, the TIROS-1 satellite sent the first televised weather photographs of the Earth’s cloud cover and weather patterns to the giant 60-foot “Space Sentry” antenna at Fort Monmouth.  The Television Infrared Observation Satellite Program (TIROS) was a...
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September 1, 1961

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex

Famed architect Eero Saarinen died on September 1, 1961. At the time of his death, one of his major projects was the The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, in Holmdel Township. Bell Labs functioned for 44 years as a research and...
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June 9, 1964

Shrewsbury Had Flying Jeeps but Asbury Park Had a Flying Submarine

This is a story about small airfields of Monmouth County that are now long gone. During World War II, residents of Monmouth County became accustomed to seeing a number of small aircraft, midget planes known affectionately as "Flying Jeeps" passing...
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June 8, 1968

Dr. Emily M. Frisby, Fort Monmouth Climatologist: “Weather can be made to work for the world, if it is interpreted properly.”

By Melissa Ziobro Editor’s note: On June 8, 1968, the U.S. Army began a two-day conference on tropical meteorology at the Marine Sciences Center in Coral Gables, Fla.  Noteworthy among the moderators and presenters was Dr. Emily M. Frisby (pictured...
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October 17, 1978

Bell Labs’ Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson Are Nobel Prize Laureates

On October 17, 1978, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, researchers at Bell Labs in Holmdel, were recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. Using the powerful “Holmdel horn antenna” (pictured), Penzias and...
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November 20, 1999

InfoAge Science & Technology Museums

On November 20, 1999, more than 1,000 people showed up in Wall Township at the site of the former Army base Camp Evans, a part of the World War II expansion of Fort Monmouth, to visit the brand new learning...
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