LEGRAND LOCKWOOD, EARLY ADOPTER
Jun 14, 2015
LEGRAND LOCKWOOD, EARLY ADOPTER
Legrand Lockwood, Early adopter
For the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT
Steven Lubar, Brown University April 2013
Norwalk, Connecticut, 1836Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society
Phelps’ travellers guide through the united states, 1850
Norwalk, Connecticut, 1850Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society
Morse and the telegraph, 1840sGranger Collection
telegraph lines, proposed, 1857Courtesy Library of Congress
The Transatlantic Cable, 1858Courtesy Library of Congress
Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854
Courtesy Library of Congress
Thoreau’s diaries and pencilsCourtesy The Morgan Library & Museum
CHAUNCEY THOMAS, The Crystal Button, 1891
Courtesy Open Library
Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of the Prairies, 1866
Spirit of Transportation
Karl Bitter, 1895 30th Street Station, Philadelpha
“Fifty Years from Now,” by Hugo GernsbacK, 1925
San Antonio Light, Feb. 8, 1925
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, House of the Seven Gables, 1851
Courtesy Open Library
“Terrors of the Telephone” - The orator of the Future
1877
"Mr. A. Merger Hogg is taking a few days' much-needed rest at his country home" 1903
Charles Dana Gibson
Harpers Weekly
1908
“We’ll all be happy then,” 1911Life Magazine, 1911
Syracuse Herald, June 8, 1919