The BEST thing to come from New Jersey
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Some of the furniture is pine other is oak.
From the site, it looks like they build most items to your spec.
From the site, it looks like they build most items to your spec.
Just my guess, but pine tends to be more affordable, so they're able to offer an "entry level" product a little more affordably, and if you want hardwood or whatever then you pay for that as an upcharge.
The best thing to come out of NJ is Taylor pork roll. Trust me.
2nd runner up would be the transistor.
2nd runner up would be the transistor.
You forgot Bell Labs/Western Electric who invented them, not to mention the Trans Atlantic telephone cable, and the finest sound reproduction gear in the world.
First Transistor With Inventors
1947: Invention of the Transistor
The first transistor was invented at Bell Laboratories on December 16, 1947 by William Shockley (seated at Brattain's laboratory bench), John Bardeen (left) and Walter Brattain (right). This was perhaps the most important electronics event of the 20th century, as it later made possible the integrated circuit and microprocessor that are the basis of modern electronics. Prior to the transistor the only alternative to its current regulation and switching functions (TRANSfer resISTOR) was the vacuum tube, which could only be miniaturized to a certain extent, and wasted a lot of energy in the form of heat. Although video was possible with vacuum tube equipment, as was the case with the Ampex VRX-1000, without the transistor video products would never have gotten very small.
The picture on the left above shows the first point contact transistor built by Walter Brattain. It consisted of a plastic triangle lightly suspended above a germanium crystal which itself was sitting on a metal plate attached to a voltage source. A strip of gold was wrapped around the point of the triangle with a tiny gap cut into the gold at the precise point it came in contact with the germanium crystal. The germanium acted as a semiconductor so that a small electric current entering on one side of the gold strip came out the other side as a proportionately amplified current.
In case you want to buy something from a non-commie state these are guys are based down in Harrisonburg, VA and have some pretty cool options. It's a veteran owned business also.
Tactical Walls
Tactical Walls
TM, thnks for the tip. those guys are right over the mountain. Ill check them out soon.
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