Showing posts with label 1800s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1800s. Show all posts
Monday, July 04, 2016

Hotel and Restaurant Menus of the 1850s and 1860s

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More here: Hotel And Restaurant Menus of The 1850s and 1860s
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The History of Videodiscs

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Video disc players of some kind have been around as far back as 1898. The Spiral Motion Picture Camera (1898) The Spi...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Are You INSANE??

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List of reasons why you could have been admitted into an insane asylum in the late 1800s. Do YOU qualify?
Monday, May 05, 2014

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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Ahhh...Cinco de Mayo. The day we Americans celebrate Mexican Independence Day by throwing parties, quaffing margaritas, tequila or Model...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Corned Beef & Cabbage

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  It's the quintessential St. Patrick's Day dinner food in America, one as mandatory as turkey on Thanksgiving. But how did we...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

When Cough Medicine Was Cough Medicine

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Florence Foster Jenkins

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Florence Foster Jenkins has been called many things, but "talented diva" wasn't one of them. She's regarded as the wor...
Friday, January 03, 2014

The United States That Could Have Been

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Click on map to enlarge
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

RIP The Incandescent Light Bulb

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As of today, January 1, 2014, incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured for the USA. (Contrary to popular belief, you can s...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Charted History Of The Music Player

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(Click to enlarge)  From ShortList
Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Strange-and-Mysterious-History-of-the-Ouija-Board-229532101.html
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The History of Stereo and Quadraphonic Sound

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When audio recording began, there was only one sound source (monaural or "mono"). The horn of a cylinder or gramophone record pla...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Your Boss Sings The Hits

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When we look for employment, even in record stores, the last thing you expect to get is a free record (that came later in your record store...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Bayer Heroin

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  .....and my mom only gave me the orange chewable aspirin!
Friday, April 05, 2013

World's Oldest Colour Photograph

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                 All original, not hand tinted! From 1872!                           Oldest Photograph in history, from 1826.
Saturday, February 16, 2013

"Au Claire de la Lune" Unknown (1860)

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Just when you thought you've heard everything in music, comes a blast from the '60s.... That's the  1860s .... A l most ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Yes! We Have A Cure For That!: Drug Advertisements You'll NEVER See Today.....

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