My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

ragbag:

thaumatrope party
one relationship of interest which i failed to mention during a previous post dated 12 march is that the greek word θαυµατ has also found its way into the english word thaumatrope—with a literal meaning of “wonder-turning.”
before there were gifs, indeed before there was even the phenakistiscope there was the thaumatrope »

A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.

above is my effort to reanimate an undated thaumatrope disc from 1876. watch along as sir wimber clownpants is like “dat ass.”

thaumatrope party

one relationship of interest which i failed to mention during a previous post dated 12 march is that the greek word θαυµατ has also found its way into the english word thaumatrope—with a literal meaning of “wonder-turning.”

before there were gifs, indeed before there was even the phenakistiscope there was the thaumatrope »

A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.

above is my effort to reanimate an undated thaumatrope disc from 1876. watch along as sir wimber clownpants is like “dat ass.”

kafkasapartment:

Technical illustration shows elevation and horizontal section of a man-powered flying machine constructed and tested unsuccessfully by Swiss watchmaker Jakob Degen living in Vienna in the early 1800s. Degen never did obtain successful flight under his own power. He tethered his ornithopter machine to a hot air balloon and worked the gears and levers to show how it might work.

sepiachord:

Siberian Bear-hunting armour, c.1800s
http://www.sepiachord.com/index/?p=3007

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/07/siberian-bear-hunting-armour-c-1800s/

victoriasrustyknickers:

‘Queen Of The Brigands’ by Frederick Arthur Bridgman

via artmight

cabbagingcove:

Beula Merton, solo cornetist

1879 promotional card - Beula Merton was one of only a handful of successful female brass musicians before the 1930s, and apparently very skilled in multiple musical styles.

victoriasrustyknickers:

Sylvain Dornon, a stiltwalking shepherd from Landes in southern France, set out on a journey from Paris to Moscow on the 12th of March 1891. His fifty-eight day walk constituted a genuine curiosity to the Russians, to whom this sort of locomotion was unknown.
via wikipedia