>From "O'New Jersey" by Robert Heide and John Gilman. State motto is "Liberty and Prosperity". State flower: purple violet adopted 1913 State bird:eastern goldfinch, adopted 1913 State animal: horse, designated 1977 State insect: honeybee, named in 1974 State tree: red oak, designated in 1950. NJ FIRSTS First celluloid, invented by John Wesley Hyatt at Newark in 1870. Dirst phonograph, by Thomas A. Edison in Menlo Park in 1877. First submarine built in 1878 by John Holland of Passaic County and in in the Public Museum at Paterson. First motion picture developed by Thomas A. Edison at Menlo Park in 1889. First incandescent lamp made by Thomas A. Edison in Menlo Park in 1879. First log cabin built in Swedesboro in the 1640s. First brewery in America in Hoboken 1642. First steam engine in America brought from England in 1753. First steam locomotive built by Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken in 1824. First boardwalk in the world built in 1870 at Atlantic City. ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo