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  1. Ashtabula Bridge Disaster as told by J.E. Burchell, a Survivor
    date December 29, 1876map ASHTABULA, Ohiotags Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Science/Technology

    On December 29, 1876 Mr. J. E. Burchell was traveling on the Pacific Express train headed toward Chicago during a heavy snow storm. As the first engine, "Socrates" crossed the two hundred foot bridge, the iron trusses broke, causing the bridge to collapse. His eye-witness account describes the accident as the second engine and eleven cars were tipped into the creek seventy feet below and the wood...

  2. Sanitary Reform in Wake of Epidemics
    date October 19, 1878map GALVESTON, Texastags Government, Health/Death, Law, Science/Technology, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    "It is now eleven years since the fever was epidemic in Galveston, and the citizens believe that with proper attention to sanitary precautions they need never suffer again." Referring to an epidemic of the yellow fever in 1867, an article in the Scientific American used Galveston, Texas, as an example for sanitation standards when quarantining the yellow fever in 1878. The article continued to claim,...

  3. The Mystique of Shamanism
    date February 19, 1820map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Health/Death, Native-Americans, Science/Technology

    On 19 February 1820, the Boston Recorder published an article on an incident that occurred overseas in Australia. A pilot at Port Dalrymple was bitten by a venomous snake and thought to be a goner by onlookers. However, a native stepped in and turned what appeared to be a man awaiting death into a healthy human being once again. He allegedly rubbed the wound with an unknown bark, palpated the leg,...

  4. Railroad Matters
    date October 13, 1873map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Economy, Government, Migration/Transportation, Science/Technology

    1Thomas Scott was about to be one step closer to his ultimate dream. The President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Scott had an ambition to build a second transcontinental railroad, and even though he would never achieve this dream on Oct. 30 1873 talks began on a deal that would hand over the rights of the California and Texas Railway Company to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. For 10 days...

  5. Charles Larpenteur becomes a Clerk for the New American Fur Company
    date July 2, 1834map TERRITORY, Territorytags Economy, Science/Technology

    Charles Larpenteur wrote about old news that had reached Fort William in the Missouri Territory on July 2, 1834. His journal entry notifies us that the information came from St. Louis and had alerted the clerks and trappers at the fort that "all the posts belonging to the American Fur Company (A.F.C.), as old Mr. Astor had this year sold out to Pierre Chouteau and Co." Charles mentions he was anxious...

  6. Dawn of the Attack Submarine
    date February 17, 1864map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Science/Technology, War

    While many people know that the American Civil War revolutionized naval warfare with the introduction of the ironclad warship, few realize that another, equally important, seaborne weapon was introduced in that conflict: the submarine. The first sub was developed by the Confederacy in the later years of the War in an effort to counteract the Union blockade, with Charleston Harbor being used as the...

  7. Cape Lookout Lighthouse
    date September 19, 1859map CARTERET, North Carolinatags Economy, Science/Technology

    "Official information has been received at this office from Captain W. H. C. Whiting, corps of engineers United States army, that the new lighthouse at Cape Lookout has been completed." The new lighthouse had the shape of a cone made of brick, with an iron lantern as the light. The tower rose 156 feet above sea level. The light was a "fixed" light that could be seen up to 22 nautical miles during ordinary...

  8. McCormick’s Improved Reaper Takes to The Fields
    date August, 1832 to 1832map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Science/Technology

    Cyrus McCormick gave a public demonstration of his newly improved Reaper near the little town of Lexington, Virginia in 1832. Around 100 people were present to watch the twenty-three year-old innovator’s contraption take to a field of grain. Herbert N. Casson explained in his book, Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, that the crowd included “several political leaders of local fame, farmers,...

  9. Wernher Von Braun Advises the Vice-President on the Space Program
    date April 29, 1961map Madison, Alabamatags Science/Technology, Cold War

                Wernher Von Braun stated in his letter to United States Vice President Lyndon Johnson, “we have an excellent chance of beating the Soviets to the first landing of a crew on the moon.” The letter discussed the strategic direction the United States should take to surpass of the Soviet Union in the space race. With the Cold War raging between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, space...

  10. Apollo Mission Puts Neil Armstrong on the Moon
    date July 20, 1969map Brevard, Floridatags Cold War, Science/Technology

                Neil Armstrong gained world-wide fame as he stepped off of the Apollo 11’s lunar module and became the first human to set foot on the moon. Completing the awe-inspiring moment he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Earlier that day, Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the Eagle lunar module pilot, had undocked from the command module...

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