Edison Mayor Sam Joshi delivers opening remarks at the grand opening of Edison's first community garden at Swales Park in Edison on Tuesday, August 16, 2022.Get Photo Edison Mayor Sam Joshi ...

at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, on June 6, 2014; at the Menlo Park Laboratory at The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, on September 20, ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then packaging them inside reheatable containers to be served on troop transports.