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Steamboat

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

January 5, 2013

(1) The man who lived a hundred years ago could not take a trip on a steamboat.

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Railroad

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 31, 2012

(2) He could not make a journey on a steam railway train.

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Telephone

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 24, 2012

(3) He had never dreamed of using a telephone, and would have laughed at the idea of talking with anyone hundreds of miles away.

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Electricity

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 23, 2012

(4) He could not light his house or store by electricity.

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Electric Car

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 20, 2012

(5) He never even imagined that it would be possible to ride in an electric car.

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Stenographer

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 18, 2012

(6) He could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter.

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Typewriter

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 17, 2012

(7) he could not use a typewriter in his correspondence.

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Phonograph

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 16, 2012

(8) He had never listened to the phonograph.

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Kinetoscope

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 15, 2012

(9) he had never seen a kinetoscope turn out a prize fight or a horse race.

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Germ Theory

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 14, 2012

(10) He had never heard of the germ theory, or worried about bacilli and bacteria.

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Dictionary

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 13, 2012

(11) He had never seen a Webster’s, a Standard, or a Century dictionary.

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Irving, Hawthorne, Dickens, Macauley, Thackerey, Sir Walter Scott

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 12, 2012

(12) He had not read the works of Irving, or Hawthorne, of Dickens or Macauley or Thackeray. It is probable that he had never heard of Sir Walter Scott, and it is certain that he had read but little of his writings.

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Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Byron, Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 11, 2012

(13) He had not read the poetry of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier or of Lowell. He never even heard of Byron, Tennyson, or Browning. It is probable that he knew but little of Wordsworth, or Coleridge, or Southey.

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Roentgen Ray

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 10, 2012

(14) He had never been able to see the bones in his hands or feet with the Roentgen Ray.

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Anesthetic

Posted by Stephanie Lehmann

A Hundred Years Ago

December 9, 2012

(15) He could not take an anaesthetic, and have his arms or legs taken off without feeling the operation.

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