Barbed wire was invented in the late 1800s, about 40 years before WWI. So a story with a scene of a dog getting tangled in it in 1910 is quite believable.
Thank you, I stand corrected. I had read an article a while back that it was not highly used before being mass produced during WWI to use on the battlefield.
Almanacks are also good. The Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle (a private library which has been around since 1826 -- you can't check anything out that is over 150 years old and its reading room is unchanged since Robert Stephenson's day) has a number starting around 1830. It is the ads in the back and the listings which are so interesting. And things like Mrs Beeton's which was often reprinted and gave helpful hints on how to manage servants etc.
You can sometimes find these things online as well, like Tunis Campbell's book on hotel management (2nd book ever published by an African-American) -- among other things it shows that he knew about time management and efficiency etc many years before Fredrick Winslow Taylor (there are reasons why he rose to become the head of the Freedman's Bureau).
I would love to be able to look through a library like that. I'm going to have another post in the near future about where to get these materials digitally. I tried to find this dictionary in PDF but I can't imagine any person wanting the job of scanning it! There are actually sellers on eBay who scan old books and sell the DVD for affordable prices.
Barbed wire was invented in the late 1800s, about 40 years before WWI. So a story with a scene of a dog getting tangled in it in 1910 is quite believable.
http://npshistory.com/brochures/home/barbed-wire.pdf
https://www.invent.org/inductees/joseph-f-glidden#:~:text=Joseph%20Glidden's%20innovative%20barbed%20wire,cattle%20in%20and%20trespassers%20out.
Thank you, I stand corrected. I had read an article a while back that it was not highly used before being mass produced during WWI to use on the battlefield.
Thanks again for catching that, I've removed that part of the article.
So Cool!!!!
Almanacks are also good. The Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle (a private library which has been around since 1826 -- you can't check anything out that is over 150 years old and its reading room is unchanged since Robert Stephenson's day) has a number starting around 1830. It is the ads in the back and the listings which are so interesting. And things like Mrs Beeton's which was often reprinted and gave helpful hints on how to manage servants etc.
You can sometimes find these things online as well, like Tunis Campbell's book on hotel management (2nd book ever published by an African-American) -- among other things it shows that he knew about time management and efficiency etc many years before Fredrick Winslow Taylor (there are reasons why he rose to become the head of the Freedman's Bureau).
I would love to be able to look through a library like that. I'm going to have another post in the near future about where to get these materials digitally. I tried to find this dictionary in PDF but I can't imagine any person wanting the job of scanning it! There are actually sellers on eBay who scan old books and sell the DVD for affordable prices.
I like the way you write so easily and entertaining capturing my interest.
Thank you!
What a lucky stroke and a nice neighbor to pass that gem along to you!
I am lucky! At the time, I never thought I'd use it as much as I do, but it's fascinating.