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Wheat Fields after the Rain by Vincent van Gogh dated 1890
This beautiful painting is on display at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The photographs help to show you the details related to this work by Vincent van Gogh. This painting is dated 1890 and titled Wheat Fields after the Rain. This work was completed just a few days before his death. Find more details about this…
Read MoreBird’s Eye View of Los Angeles circa 1894
Tile Designs of Maw & Co circa 1850 and 1890
Bird’s Eye View of Chicago circa 1892
Lord Kelvin Biography
[Repubished from Cassier’s Magazine from the original article by By J.D. Cormack, B.Sc., M.I.E.E. published 1899.] AT the close of a century, unequalled in the history of the world for progress in civilisation and science, looking backward, and tracing the growth of old, the beginning and development of new sciences and the close union of…
Read MoreThomas Edison Orange Laboratory Group Picture circa 1893
List of Orange Laboratory Staff 1 THOS. A. EDISON. 2 CH. BATCHELOR. 3 W. S. MALLORY. 4 J. F. RANDOLPH. 5 J. W. HARRIS. 6 J. OTT. 7 THOS. MAGUIRE. 8 J. W. GLADSTONE 9 CH. BROWN 10 A.Y. STEWART 11 W. MILLER 12 J.W. AYLESWORTH 13 J.T. MARSHALL 14 A.E. KENNELLY 15 P. KENNY…
Read MoreWoman’s Club Illustration Circa 1899
Christmas Green – Market Illustration circa 1897 by C.J. Taylor
The History of the Telephone circa 1895
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 8 May-Oct. 1895. Article by W. Clyde Jones] The telephone has become such a commonplace appliance of modern life that one seldom stops to think what a wonderful instrument it is, nor yet what a great factor it has be- come in everyday life. Like other important inventions, it…
Read MoreProfile Alexander Graham Bell circa 1895
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 8 May-Oct. 1895] With the publication, in this number, of several articles on telephony and telegraphy, it would seem appropriate to give space also to an account, however brief, of Alexander Graham Bell, whose investigations and practical developments in the field of electrical transmission of speech have given us…
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