A unique motor car recently was exhibited at Atlantic City, New Jersey, which also can be used as a boat. The motor is capable of making a speed of sixty miles an hour on land. When the driver wishes, it can be driven into a body of water, by manipulating a clutch, which throws the [...]
A problem that kept an entire office force puzzled for two days is what is called the cannibal and missionary puzzle. Here it is for you to idle your time away on. Three cannibals and three missionaries arrive at the bank of a river which they must somehow cross. There is but one boat. This [...]
There are numerous theories about the origin of the rhyme, these include: James Orchard Halliwell’s suggestion that it was a corruption of ancient Greek, probably advanced as a result of a deliberate hoax; that it was connected with Hathor worship; that it refers to various constellations (Taurus, Canis minor, the Big Dipper etc.); that it describes the Flight from Egypt; that [...]
What would be your sensations while you awaited the awful, crushing blow that would end your existence? Would your courage be equal to the strain of such a terrifying ordeal? Graphically, and with blood-stirring vividness, the author of “The Big Bear of Lonesome Rock,” which was awarded first prize in the Big Game Series of [...]
The peculiar arrangement of the planes of this flying-machine, which is the invention of two Minneapolis men, and for which the press of that city claim a successful midnight flight, has caused it to be called a “butterfly” aeroplane. The inventors are J. Stewart, a retired engineer, and S. Bromwell, a farmer with considerable mechanical [...]
The first stringent rule ever given in this county by a telephone company was issued today. An order was given prohibiting all operators from indulging in chewing gum, eating candy and even drinking while on duty without being relieved. – Linton Dispatch in Terre Haute (Ind.) Star. Image/Copy credit.
A subterranean passage, somewhat resembling the secret underground exits of medieval castles, differing only in the fact that it is more commodious, is traveled by up-to-date conveyances, and is not secret, is the latest acquisition of the United States Senate. It leads from below the senate wing in the Capitol to the new senatorial office [...]
ca. 1909 – Considerable fun was recently made of the United States government by the press of the country over the fact that a thin man – the thinner the better – was being advertised for to assist in the operation of refrigerating machinery in a special government railway car designed for the pre-cooling of [...]
Aeroplanes of less wing spread than some of the largest albatross of the South Seas are being produced in England. The wings of these tiny machines extend only 15 feet, while albatross have been known to measure 17 and 18 feet from tip to tip. It is considered likely that air craft of this type [...]
The tethering of sheep with slip lines so that they can graze along railway rights of way without danger of being killed by passing trains, has been tried out and found so practical that eventually thousands of acres of land, now idle, may be used in producing mutton and wool. The plan is being followed [...]
In the late 19th Century, a woman with a bit more meat on her bones was what was in. Contrast that with now, where everyone wants to be thin! This advertisement from 1895 shows a young woman with a package of Loring’s Fat-Ten-U food tablets and as well as Loring’s Corpula, a fat-producting food. From [...]
An animated cartoon about Mr. Nobody Holme, who warms up his sluggish automobile with the assistance of a stick of dynamite. Story by Tom E. Powers and animated by Leon Searl. Includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli. These short satires of contemporary life are based on Tom Powerss newspaper comics. The [...]
A twelve frame satire of real and fictitious important figures. They are: 1. Dr. Albert Frederick Cook, “Inventor of the North Pole,” who claimed to have discovered the icy region before Admiral Robert E. Peary. Powers suggests that he may have discovered another “pole” by juxtaposing a bust-length caricature of the American physician and explorer, [...]
Mockups for a variety of paint brush designs by Charles “Chuck” Harrison. Harrison, born September 23, 1931 in Shreveport, Louisiana, is an American industrial designer residing in Chicago. He was the first African-American executive to work at Sears, Roebuck and Company, starting in 1961 as a designer and eventually becoming manager of the company’s entire design group. He was involved in the design [...]
Gertie is a dinosaur who lives in present times. She encounters a train and dreams of being the life of the party in her time. Produced and animated by Winsor McCay featuring a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli. (Video courtesy of Rialto Productions/Library of Congress/Tehrkot Media)
“CREEPING BABY DOLL – ISSUED AS PATENT 112,550” Patent drawing, dated March 14, 1871, R.J. Clay. (National Archives/Tehrkot Media)
