Stand Pipes — Vol. 1
Check out the forgotten world of stand pipes — tall, cylindrical water towers often the pride and joy of cities and towns.
Check out the forgotten world of stand pipes — tall, cylindrical water towers often the pride and joy of cities and towns.
In 1922, when radios were introduced to the general public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a staunch believer in Spiritualism — donned headphones and experienced radio for the first time, in Atlantic City. He speculated that the new technology might be quite efficacious in communing with the dearly departed. More inside.