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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.

"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."

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Quote Details: James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)  

(via mudwerks)

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cabbagingcove: Electric Light. It is electric and it is light. Product recognition! When completely new products and concepts are rolled out, you have to make sure people understand them…and why they want them. THEN you can market your brand! Official Souvenir and Guide to the Tennessee State Fair. Sept 23-28, 1907.

cabbagingcove:

Electric Light.

It is electric and it is light.

Product recognition! When completely new products and concepts are rolled out, you have to make sure people understand them…and why they want them. THEN you can market your brand!

Official Souvenir and Guide to the Tennessee State Fair. Sept 23-28, 1907.

questionableadvice: ~ The American Eagle Christmas Gifts, November 1918 (American Hardware Stores, Inc.)via Harvard University Libraries(click to enlarge)“Where there’s Electricity these appliances are of intrinsic usefulness”

questionableadvice:

~ The American Eagle Christmas Gifts, November 1918 (American Hardware Stores, Inc.)
via Harvard University Libraries
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“Where there’s Electricity these appliances are of intrinsic usefulness”

questionableadvice: ~ Your Next Kitchen - by Hotpoint, 1944(click to enlarge)“ELECTRICITY…[i]ts sleepless power leaps to our fingertips to perform tasks which only yesterday etched youthful faces and lovely hands with the indelible lines of toil and fatigue” Let’s live the life electric

questionableadvice:

~ Your Next Kitchen - by Hotpoint, 1944
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“ELECTRICITY…[i]ts sleepless power leaps to our fingertips to perform tasks which only yesterday etched youthful faces and lovely hands with the indelible lines of toil and fatigue”

Let’s live the life electric

cabbagingcove: Electricity! It’s MAGIC!

cabbagingcove:

Electricity! It’s MAGIC!

questionableadvice: ~ Homecraft, The Aladdin Company Catalog, Bay City, Michigan; 191?via Internet Archive (click to enlarge) “LIGHT YOUR HOME BY ELECTRICITYYou will want electric lights in your house as they are just as much a necessity as modern plumbing. They are safe, clean and cheerful and will give you a pride in your home and the same distinction you feel in owning a good automobile.”

questionableadvice:

~ Homecraft, The Aladdin Company Catalog, Bay City, Michigan; 191?
via Internet Archive
(click to enlarge)

“LIGHT YOUR HOME BY ELECTRICITY
You will want electric lights in your house as they are just as much a necessity as modern plumbing. They are safe, clean and cheerful and will give you a pride in your home and the same distinction you feel in owning a good automobile.”

questionableadvice: ~ The Spirit of Progress: Electricity the Modern Way, September 1932via National Library of Australia(click to enlarge)

questionableadvice:

~ The Spirit of Progress: Electricity the Modern Way, September 1932
via National Library of Australia
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