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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

klg19: Hully gee!  Let’s all wish a happy happy birthday to the man who created comics in America as we know them, the great R.F. Outcault (14 January 1863-25 September 1928)! Starting with Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895, he introduced The Yellow Kid, which became such a success that Hearst lured him to the New York Journal a year later, sparking imitators at his old job and lawsuits over title rights: In 1902, he brought us Buster Brown and his glorious dog, the bull terrier Tige.  Buster dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy but behaved like Peck’s Bad Boy, and Tige provided the Greek chorus:

klg19:

Hully gee!  Let’s all wish a happy happy birthday to the man who created comics in America as we know them, the great R.F. Outcault (14 January 1863-25 September 1928)!

Yellow Kid

Starting with Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895, he introduced The Yellow Kid, which became such a success that Hearst lured him to the New York Journal a year later, sparking imitators at his old job and lawsuits over title rights:

Pulitzer vs Hearst

In 1902, he brought us Buster Brown and his glorious dog, the bull terrier Tige.  Buster dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy but behaved like Peck’s Bad Boy, and Tige provided the Greek chorus:

Buster Brown

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victoriasrustyknickers: Westinghouse steam traction engine pictured in an 1886 Westinghouse Co. catalog.

victoriasrustyknickers:

Westinghouse steam traction engine pictured in an 1886 Westinghouse Co. catalog.

sciencecenter: 123 years ago, Thomas Edison produced the very first commercially-available recording - a woman reciting “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” And today, thanks to the work of a few scientists at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, we can hear the recording again. Using a confocal microscope, the researchers were able to map the topology of a badly damaged cylinder on which the recording was made. They then converted the grooves into sound, and - voila! - a century-old woman’s voice came back to life. The recording was sold with a doll, which could be cranked to recite the nursery rhyme. You can listen to the rather haunting recording here.

sciencecenter:

123 years ago, Thomas Edison produced the very first commercially-available recording - a woman reciting “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

And today, thanks to the work of a few scientists at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, we can hear the recording again. Using a confocal microscope, the researchers were able to map the topology of a badly damaged cylinder on which the recording was made. They then converted the grooves into sound, and - voila! - a century-old woman’s voice came back to life. The recording was sold with a doll, which could be cranked to recite the nursery rhyme.

You can listen to the rather haunting recording here.

(via victoriasrustyknickers)

onthetrolley: Via: paul.malon (Flickr)

onthetrolley:

Via: paul.malon (Flickr)