In my past two Cannonball blog posts, we learned about railroad ticket agent Joseph Leib, conductor John Eckert, and telegrapher Daniel Trone and their efforts to escape from Hanover and Hanover ...

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Last week I began this discussion of Civil War infrastructure in Arkansas with a look at roads, railroads, bridges, and manufacturing of war material. The story continues with a look at telegraphy, ...

MODERN invention rivals ancient miracle in its startling and world-transforming effects. The things which in our youth we were taught to be impossible are now the every day incidents of our life and ...

Father wouldn`t give me permission to go into the services but my mother, who was of an understanding disposition, signed the form for the Wrens without his knowing; he gave in gracefully when my ...

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THIS little book is divided into fifteen chapters, each chapter consisting of three or four paragraphs of large print describing the historical development of the ionic valve, the principles on which ...

Hawley Harvey Crippen was a homoeopath, ear and eye specialist and a medicine dispenser from the United States. His life ended in a rather unconventional manner, in 1910, Dr. Crippen was hanged in ...

WHY Mr. Beechy should wish to depart from ordinary usage and call his book electro-telegraphy rather than electric telegraphy, we have no idea. The assumption of an eccentric title for a scientific ...

Any pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can’t use too many drums. In a good standard plot, talking drums warn fierce natives of the unsuspecting white man’s ...