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1900 Massachusetts factory uses escalator and air conditioning!Dec 4, 2009
From a early newspaper around 1903.
WORKERS' FATIGUE MINIMIZED
There are few factories of prominence today which do not evidence a willingness on the part of employers to avoid physical waste of employees by installing the latest labor-saving...
1895 Bridget Cleary burned to death in IrelandDec 4, 2009
This article is from the San Francisco Call, July 6th 1895. Bridget Cleary was an Irish female murdered by her husband in 1895. Her demise is noteworthy for numerous reasons. According to her husband she was murdered because her husband believed that...
1905 Wives complain of golf wrecking their livesDec 2, 2009
From the Los Angeles Herald, January 22nd 1905
"golf has insinuated its seductive form and paralyzed the enterprise and energy of the breadwinner."
The golf mania has reached that stage in the British isles where it seems to have justified the...
1910 West Virginia Football Death and Murder ChargeNov 30, 2009
Interesting article on a player punching a opponent in the back of the head. The player dies and the assailant is charged with murder.
From the San Francisco Call, November 14th 1910
MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWS BLOW IN FOOTBALL GAME
Magistrate Issues...
1802 Equipment for the Recovery from DrowningNov 29, 2009
Here is a engraving I found of "Implements of Restoration from Drowning". This is from "The Domestic Encyclopaedia Vol. 2", by A. F. M. Willich, 1802.
Fig. 1, A pair of bellows with two separate bags, so contrived that by opening them, when applied to...
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