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Hello Steve Rhodes,
Based on your recent visit, we thought you might be interested in these items:
* I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
* I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
* I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888
* I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
Posted on December 29, 2018
By SIU Press
“This first-ever pictorial record of the people and methods of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District from the 1900s to the 1990s covers early and modern means of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporting the mineral from mine mouth to end user.
“Nearly 100 images carefully selected by author Herbert K. Russell show early pick-and-shovel extraction and open-flame lighting as well as primitive drilling methods and transportation by barrels, buckets, barges, mule teams, and trams, in addition to the use of modern equipment and sophisticated refinement procedures such as froth flotation.
“Russell also provides an overview of the many industrial uses of fluorspar, from metal work by ancient Romans to the processing of uranium by scientists seeking to perfect the atomic bomb.”
Posted on December 19, 2018
By Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson/The Conversation
When we hear the word “stereo” today, we might simply think of a sound system, as in “turn on the stereo.”
But stereo actually is a specific technology, like video streaming or the latest expresso maker.
Sixty years ago, it was introduced for the first time.
Whenever a new technology comes along – whether it’s Bluetooth, high-definition TV or Wi-Fi – it needs to be explained, packaged and promoted to customers who are happy with their current products.
Stereo was no different. As we explore in our recent book, Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America, stereo needed to be sold to skeptical consumers. This process involved capturing the attention of a public fascinated by space-age technology using cutting-edge graphic design, in-store sound trials and special stereo demonstration records.
Posted on December 14, 2018
By William Hazelgrove
ST. CHARLES – A new book has turned aviation upside down with amazing reviews and a full write-up in the Smithsonian with the assertion that Wilbur Wright was the man responsible for inventing the first plane capable of powered flight.
Bestselling author William Hazelgrove’s new book, Wright Brothers, Wrong Story, has set the assumed belief that the brothers worked in tandem on its head by delving into the papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright and emerging with a very different story than the standard team story of two men who banded together to produce the world’s first airplane. As pointed out in the Daily Mail, the book explores the family life of the brothers as well and the strange proclivities of the insular Wright children who never left home.
Posted on December 6, 2018
By SIU Press
William Butler Ogden was a pioneer railroad magnate, one of the earliest founders and developers of the City of Chicago, and an important influence on U.S. westward expansion.
His career as a businessman stretched from the streets of Chicago to the wilds of the Wisconsin lumber forests, from the iron mines of Pennsylvania to the financial capitals in New York and beyond.
Jack Harpster’s The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden is the first chronicle of one of the most notable figures in 19th-century America.
Posted on December 4, 2018
