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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.

questionableadvice: ~ The Review of Reviews, April 1900“Cake, Toast or Biscuit Rest” Very handy.

questionableadvice:

~ The Review of Reviews, April 1900

“Cake, Toast or Biscuit Rest”

Very handy.

cabbagingcove: todaysdocument: Drawing of Hat to Prevent Drowning, 10/14/1840 Because water safety and proper attire shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. Best hat.

cabbagingcove:

todaysdocument:

Drawing of Hat to Prevent Drowning, 10/14/1840

Because water safety and proper attire shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.

Best hat.

nypl: We know you’ll like this, Tumblr — it’s Obed Hussey, Inventor First Man to Patent the Reaper. According to Ohio History Central, Obed Hussey was born in 1791 to Quaker parents. As a young man, he became a sailor on a whaling ship, but he eventually forsook this career. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he created a farming machine known as the reaper in 1833. The reaper was a horse-drawn machine that chopped and collected a farmer’s grain. Hussey was the first man to patent his invention, but he was not the first person to invent such a machine.

nypl:

We know you’ll like this, Tumblr — it’s Obed Hussey, Inventor First Man to Patent the Reaper.

According to Ohio History Central,

Obed Hussey was born in 1791 to Quaker parents. As a young man, he became a sailor on a whaling ship, but he eventually forsook this career. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he created a farming machine known as the reaper in 1833. The reaper was a horse-drawn machine that chopped and collected a farmer’s grain. Hussey was the first man to patent his invention, but he was not the first person to invent such a machine.

emporioefikz: N. Tesla Alternating Motor Patented Feb, 25, 1896

emporioefikz:

N. Tesla Alternating Motor

Patented Feb, 25, 1896

iloveretro: Drawing for a Game Board (1904) This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie, today known as “The Landlord’s Game”, a game that’s very much like “Monopoly” that originally came out in the 1930s

iloveretro:

Drawing for a Game Board (1904)

This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie, today known as “The Landlord’s Game”, a game that’s very much like “Monopoly” that originally came out in the 1930s

xplanes: Bott’s Airship (suggested by Paul Dunlop)

xplanes:

Bott’s Airship (suggested by Paul Dunlop)

xplanes: Edwin Pynchon, Inventor, 1883 Patent for an airship (1883)

xplanes:

Edwin Pynchon, Inventor, 1883

Patent for an airship (1883)