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A Mobile Phone From 1922? Not Quite
History often plays linguistic tricks on us, especially when it comes to rapidly changing technologies
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Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield “in an American manner.”
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Trade Your Trouble for a Bubble
Sightseeing across the country in an atomic-powered “pleasure ball”
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Moving Sidewalks Before The Jetsons
The public’s fascination with the concept of “movable pavement” extends back more than 130 years
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The Epic Struggle to Tunnel Under the Thames
No one had ever tunneled under a major river before Marc Brunel began a shaft below London’s river in the 1820s
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The Doomed South Pole Voyage’s Remaining Photographs
A 1912 photograph proves explorer Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole—but wasn’t the first
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Scientific progress during the 20th century prompted a number of predictions about an impending cure
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A special visit from the Ghost of Christmas Retro-Future
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The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012
In 1912, the French chocolate company Lombart printed a series of six collectible cards envisioning daily life one hundred years in the future
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At the height of the sailing era, four of the world’s fastest clippers raced home with the season’s precious early cargo of tea
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Jack Dempsey boasted he could tear apart a robot opponent “bolt by bolt and scatter its brain wheels and cogs all over the canvas”
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A Chess Champion’s Dominance—and Madness
As a young man, Paul Morphy vanquished eight opponents simultaneously while effectively blindfolded
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The Unknown Contributions of Brits in the American Civil War
Historian Amanda Foreman discusses how British citizens took part in the war between the Union and the Confederacy
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Henry Morton Stanley’s Unbreakable Will
The explorer of Dr. Livingstone-fame provides a classic character study of how willpower works
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The Monocled World War II Interrogator
Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens became known for “breaking” captured German spies without laying a hand on them
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We’re moving on up—visions of a self-contained community within a 1,000-foot tall skyscraper
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1968′s Computerized School of the Future
A forward-looking lesson plan predicted that “computers will soon play as significant and universal a role in schools as books do today”
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In Rome, a New Museum Worth Celebrating
A Roman museum devoted to 19th century hero Giuseppe Garibaldi is a bright spot amid the gloomy news from Italy
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