After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr developed a two-cylinder gasoline engine and set up their business in Charles City, Iowa. In 1903 the firm built ...
Collections Joseph The Prophet Addressing The Lamanites By Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1844 This color print is a full-length portrait of Joseph Smith (1805-1844) , standing in the ...
At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the ...
Ernest Beaux created the perfume “Soir de Paris” (“Evening in Paris”) for French perfumer Bourjois in 1928. Established in Paris in 1863 to manufacture make up and face powders, Bourjois has been ...
The “BOYD’S BATTERY” inscription on this small gizmo refers to a widely advertised personal wellness device introduced in the late 1870s. A reporter who visited J. C. Boyd’s laboratory in New York ...
This Original Kodak camera, introduced by George Eastman, placed the power of photography in the hands of anyone who could press a button. Unlike earlier cameras that used a glass-plate negative for ...