The new fluorescent lightbulbs!
Monthly Archives: July 2012
A Shining Example – 1951
The Western Electric “burning board” tests telephone switchboard lights.
Rainbow over Salt Lake
Salt Lake City, Olympus Cove on the East Bench, 7-18-2004
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Einstein’s Desk, 1955
Albert Einstein’s desk at Princeton. Photo taken a few hours after his death on April 18, 1955.
Found at life.time.com
Opened by Censor
Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department worker checks the content of a letter”.
During the Second World War personal correspondence was routinely censored.
Found at the Flickr stream of the British National Archives
Before attorneys could advertise
Above images found at ukgraphicdesigners.com
Found at 50satomicranchhouse.blogspot.com
I had a really nice Chemcraft chemistry set when I was a kid. All sorts of poisons that could have killed me. Things that would blow up. Glass tubes to heat up, burn the piss out of my fingers, and make capillary pipettes out of. Glass labware. And nary a lawsuit to be seen. I’d love to have things around the house like this even now.
Here’s what we’ve come to today:
A chemistry set that trumpets “No Chemicals.” How sad is that?
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Red Cross Singalong, 1944
Red Cross workers entertain troops. Taken either in Germany or Egypt, not sure which.
Photo from the estate of Margaret Draper
24 hours of Wal-Mart
‘Atsa lotta shoppin’…
The Computer Engineer – 1952
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, stands in front of a Univac mainframe in 1952.
Photo: Computer History Museum
Singles
You gotta use one of these…
or a stacking adaptor like this.
Those were the days!
The Old Wolf has spoken.
found at thisisnthappiness
Playing in the World Game 