A necessity for visits to the barbershop.
Guide by A.J. Cole, 1890.
There’s a discussion topic here somewhere…
Image of a Young Girl
Madame Tussauds Unveils Anne Frank Wax Figure
By Kate Katharina Ferguson in Berlin
On August 10, 1846, the act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, created with donation money left to the U.S. by scientist James Smithson, was signed into law by President James K. Polk.
Little did they realize the museum/library/research center would just end up being a really convenient place to hang up Fonzie’s jacket.
One man shot while being arrested, an entire city explodes into Hell.
There will be a lot to wrap our minds about once the riots in London have subsided. For now, it’s just terrifying.
This vintage 100+ year old photo booth photo is amazing. Obviously they didn’t know we’d be looking at it today in awe, but that’s kind of the reason why one of us thinks people should keep a journal.
Today marks the 207th anniversary of Alexander Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr.
Thankfully, very few political spats are solved this way today.
Hans Langseth (1846 - 1927), a.k.a. King Whiskers, holds the record for the world’s longest beard at 18 feet 6 inches long
The History of the Space Shuttle
From its first launch 30 years ago to its final launch scheduled for next Friday, NASA’s Space Shuttle program has seen moments of dizzying inspiration and of crushing disappointment. When next week’s launch is complete, the program will have sent up 135 missions, ferrying more than 350 humans and thousands of tons of material and equipment into low Earth orbit. Fourteen astronauts have lost their lives along the way — the missions have always been risky, the engineering complex, the hazards extreme. As we near the end of the program, I’d like to look back at the past few decades of shuttle development and missions as we await the next steps toward human space flight.
Above: Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, on April 12, 1981. Commander John Young and pilot Robert Crippen were onboard STS-1, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program. (Reuters/NASA/KSC)
See more excellent photos at In Focus
All three of us need goggles like that.
nypl:
Toilers in the Westinghouse Lamp Division Research Department perform the firsts tests on “the largest mercury vapor lamp ever built” in this photo from our 1939-40 World’s Fair collection.
More than 60 years later, some similar research and development went on right in our own Science, Industry and Business Library, when Ground-Lab co-founder, Justin Downs, was developing another record-breaking lamp.
