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The Great Falls in New Jersey

The waterpower system fostered many technological advances in industry, such as the first cotton duck cloth for sails, the first continuous sheet paper, the first revolver by Samuel Colt, and the first practical submarine by John Holland. Paterson became the world's center for the production of cotton, silk and locomotives.

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Uploaded on April 3, 2010
Taken on March 22, 2010