Gems from NY Times archive 1851 onward

[bdude]

Idea zipped from this blog

Here we go, events from the past come back to life:

First mention of the world wide web

President Lincoln is assassinated, still alive by last accounts

Custer's Last Stand

Einstein's first splash onto the Science pages

The Titanic!

Television? That'll never work.

First blurb of Harry Potter before it became a world phenom.

So...what else is out there?

 

[amdhunter]

Those are all awesome reads. :thumbsup:

 

[Syringer]

Tokyo Bombers Strike Hard At Our Main Bases on Oahu; JAPANESE HIT HARD AT BASES ON OAHU AMERICAN NAVAL BASE ATTACKED PROM AIR

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/...DDA10894DA415B8188F1D3

 

[Excelsior]

This one is neat: Music by Wireless to the Times Tower

March 8, 1907, Friday

Telephone Messages Also Received through the Tether.

A HINT OF WHAT MAY BE

By and By You Can Talk to Your Wife when She's on a Steamer Out at Sea.

To the top of the Times Building from Telharmonic Hall, at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, music and telephone messages were sent by wireless last night. The messages received varied in importance, from "Harriman has not yet butchered the Government" to "soon every up to date reporter will be equipped with a wireless telephone, which he will ground with his heel in the mud and through which he will tell his city editor that the rumor that Mrs. Blank has abandoned her poodle dog is false.

That is pretty cool. Whoever said that was not too far off.

 

[aldamon]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/a...5754C1A9609C94649ED7CF

WAGONS TO BE RUN BY GAS; An Attempt to Deliver by Them Goods from Department Stores. A HORSE'S WORK AT A CENT AN HOUR Gas Produced by Petroleum Will Be the Motive Power -- The Engine to be Only Eighteen Inches High.