Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"
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Whaling the Old Way
Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.
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Wagner Free Institute of Science
The Exhibition Hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, with its original systematic scheme of cherry-wood cabinets dating from the 1880s, provides a rare view of a Victorian scie
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Telecommunications Triumphs
Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
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Livingstone in a New Light
Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.