Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2019

Dumpster Diving in The Internet Archive

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If you love random free, old, fun and useful stuff. But can't find anything useful on the curb outside and you're tired o...
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Friday, October 11, 2019

Hospital Radio

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     Image: Sheffield Hospital Radio It was an American idea that became a British institution that is almost completely unheard of i...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Regina Hexaphone (1908-1916)

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  The Regina Hexaphone (no, we're not talking about the  popular North Carolina band ) was the very first successful fully automat...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Chick Chick Easter Egg Colouring Kit From 1910

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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 10, 2014

The Kids In The Mail

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In 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied...
Monday, December 30, 2013

The Phonograph Repeater

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Watch a video of this thing here . From the early 1900s, these were the very first automatic repeat gadgets for records. The needle wou...
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
Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Ediphone

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 Whilst on a visit to my friend's house, he had something in his yard he (and no one else) could identify. Only that it looked like ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Candy Cigarettes

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Candy  cigarettes were a kids version of the things Mom and Dad had hanging out of their mouths from the '30s to the '80s.........
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Abandoned Theaters

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There's fewer sights sadder than an abandoned theater. Buildings that were once the source of so much joy for so many people only ...