History of New Jersey awarded to those groups under the original New Jersey State Constitution of 1776. Some important components of the second State Constitution include the separation of the powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The new constitution also provided a bill of rights. Underneath the constitution, the people had the right to elect the governor. The famous inventor Thomas Edison was born in 1847. Edison worked in Menlo Park, and was known as "the Wizard of Menlo Park" for his many inventions; over the course of his life, he was granted 1,093 patents. His most famous inventions included the phonograph,
Menlo, County Galway Menlo Park in California, which was named by Denis J. Oliver and D.C. McGlynn after their native village. They constructed a wooden arch in Menlo Park, California to look like the stone archway of Menlo Castle in Menlo, Ireland. Menlo is situated on the east side of the River Corrib and south of Lough Corrib. Menlo Castle, the former home of Valentine Blake, can still be seen here. Novelist, Walter Macken, established a home here; the wooden structure is still there. The first primary level school opened in the village in 1862. Tomás Laighléis details the controversies surrounding this in