From the eighteenth-century Moravians singing hymns on communal farms, to twentieth-century steelworkers laboring in blazing furnaces, to twenty-first century healthcare and warehouse workers cutting loose at Musikfest, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has moved to many beats.
The Hagley Digital Archives are alive and growing again, and one of it's newest additions is a recently acquired publication in our collection of rare pamphlets.
Working parents rely on childcare infrastructure, and as working parent became an ever-larger proportion of the American workforce from the 1960s onward, the lack of accessible, affordable, quality childcare became a major political and cultural issue.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the world's first intercontinental radio transmission. On September 29, 1915, a U.S. naval radio station in Arlington, Virginia initiated a transmission to another naval radio station on Mare Island in San Francisco, California, which then relayed to Honolulu, Hawaii.
The demonstration was a joint public-private venture coordinated through defense contracts with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and the Western Electric Co., using equipment installed at radio stations under Navy jurisdiction.
According to an AI search, up to 15% of humans have a fear of spiders. Strangely though, spiders get a pass during the build up to Halloween. Spider-themed decorations adorn many homes and businesses with nary a blink or shudder from passersby. With that in mind as the holiday approaches, I hope, dear reader, that you can put aside your fears for once and show a little pity for the poor spider as I am about to introduce you to a one-of-kind patent model that tortured spiders in a quest to create a new textile industry for formerly enslaved Americans.
