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Stand Pipes — Vol. 1

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on April 12, 2020July 26, 2020
  • 1900s

Check out the forgotten world of stand pipes — tall, cylindrical water towers often the pride and joy of cities and towns.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mulling the Possibility of Seances via Radio — 1922

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on August 6, 2017
  • 1920s

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.

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