Johann Esaias Silberschlag, Theorie der am 23 Juli, 1762, erschienen Feuer-Kugel (Theory on the July 23, 1762, appearance of a fireball) Tonight might be a good night to get away more »
Month: June 2010
Goggles, Pilot, Aleksei Leonov, USSR, National Air and Space Museum, Gift of Aleksei Leonov. Continuing our theme from last week . . . The 1960s were a volatile time around more »
Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, MA. The 1917 Party Book, 1917, pages 6-7, Patriotic table decorations. To get in the spirit we are featuring some patriotic decorations from The 1917 Party Book. more »
Is it possible to have too many cat images in one's blog? Not when they're as wonderful as this one! The frantic feline (left) is an illustration of "Phoenix's Feline more »
The bicycle was patented on this day in 1819. The Libraries has many great images on its Galaxy of Images from the 1912 Pope Manufacturing Company catalog, Columbia Bicycles, but more »
Nanz & Neuner, Inc., Floral Catalogue Illustrated, 1899, Front Cover, also featured in Seed Catalogs. Some more rose-related quotes for this rosy month of June . . . The first more »
At the start of 1962 the United States seemed to be in danger of losing the Space Race to the Soviet Union. While we had managed to launch two astronauts more »