High fashion and old maps were the last thing I expected to see together. This morning I was half-watching a reality show, “House of DVF” while I hit my first 2 cups of tea and checked some historic article downloads for missing OCR layers. [My primary motivational habit is to work on computer housekeeping chores at…
World’s Fairs had such impact! Read about a demonstration of the telautograph and it’s wondrous instant messaging and a home telephone voice recorder from in the 1904 World’s Fair news section “Electricity up to 1904”. Below the except is a photo of an early solar collector dish, also displayed at the 1904 Louisiana Exposition. I came across…