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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: ~ Western Union Telegraph Company, c. 1930’svia Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History When buying a cheap mass produced card is too impersonal - try to convey the depth of your feelings by telegraph. Happy Father’s Day STOP.

questionableadvice:

~ Western Union Telegraph Company, c. 1930’s
via Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History

When buying a cheap mass produced card is too impersonal - try to convey the depth of your feelings by telegraph. Happy Father’s Day STOP.

bucketkickers: New York City, 1946. Original caption: Marianne Grande of Asbury Park, N.J., writes a telegraph message to her fiance whom she was to wed. Stranded in Grand Central terminal by the rail strike.

bucketkickers:

New York City, 1946. Original caption:

Marianne Grande of Asbury Park, N.J., writes a telegraph message to her fiance whom she was to wed. Stranded in Grand Central terminal by the rail strike.

(Source: geewhiz, via beccarocks)

cabbagingcove: A Motor-Car with Wireless Telegraph From the text: “It has become quite the fashion in America to have motor-cars fitted up for wireless telegraphy. The electron plays an important role in telegraphing through space.” [The Autobiography of an Electron. Charles R. Gibson, 1911.] “dot-dot-[bump in the road]Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash”. Now this looks easy to use and not at all distracting. I suppose we should be grateful that it is “wireless” telegraphy.

cabbagingcove:

A Motor-Car with Wireless Telegraph

From the text: “It has become quite the fashion in America to have motor-cars fitted up for wireless telegraphy. The electron plays an important role in telegraphing through space.”

[The Autobiography of an Electron. Charles R. Gibson, 1911.]

“dot-dot-[bump in the road]Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash”. Now this looks easy to use and not at all distracting. I suppose we should be grateful that it is “wireless” telegraphy.