Webfeat

This week exercise was using the link called Webfeat which can be found on the library's home page. By using this search and putting in my home state , I was able to come up with some interesting facts on New Jersey that I didn't know. I lived in New Jersey for 15 years and now just learned some interesting facts from the world book encyclopedia

The first drive-in motion picture theater was opened on June 6, 1933, on Crescent Boulevard outside Camden. The theater presented two shows each night on a 40 by 50 foot (12 by 15 meter) screen. Inclined rows at the theater accommodated 500 cars. Richard Hollingshead, Jr., the owner of the theater, originated the idea for the drive-in.

A huge clock in a riverfront park in Jersey City can be read from across the Hudson River in New York City. The clock, which came from the old Colgate-Palmolive building, is 50 feet (15 meters) across. The minute hand, about 26 feet (8 meters) long, moves 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) every 34 hours 4 minutes.

The first electric sewing machine was made in 1889 by the Singer Manufacturing Company at its factory in Elizabethport (now Elizabeth).

Fred