The article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

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The first documented circular-saw patent in an English-speaking country was granted in 1777, two years before Babbitt's birth ...

How did 'everything is everywhere' arise out of nineteenth century microbiology, and from Beijerinck's experimental and theoretical work in particular? What is the relationship of this principle ...

Their invention was the basis for the semaphore ... Over the course of the 19th century this primitive network of flapping, clanking machines evolved into a global communication system.

Lincoln even patented an invention to help grounded steamboats ... viewer would appear to predict their coming slaughter. For 19th-century Americans, water represented both nature and civilization.