Category: Development
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Tragedies Of Our Inexorable Immigration Laws
Open any newspaper today and you’ll see that we still have problems with immigration law. But in 1910, when immigrants came through Ellis Island, the problems were of a different sort. People were turned away, and families were even separated, when someone was even suspected of carrying a disease, or being an undesirable person who […]
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Ex-Slaves Dream Of A Model Negro Colony Comes True
The 13th amendment ended slavery in the United States when it was ratified in 1865. In 1887, Isaiah Montgomery founded Mound Bayou as an independent black community of freed slaves. Slightly smaller than one square mile, Mound Bayou today has a population of just over 2,000 people, 98.43% of whom are African American (as of […]
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Charles K. Hamilton Tells How To Run An Aeroplane
It had been 7 years since the Wright Brothers flew the first plane, and Charles Hamilton was about to make the first round trip flight from New York to Philadelphia. In this article, he provides a very plain-language explanation of exactly how his plane works. Driving an aeroplane at the speed of 120 miles an […]
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Running Trains On One Rail
Aw, it’s not for you. It’s more of a Shelbyville idea. RUNNING TRAINS ON ONE RAIL (PDF) From May 29, 1910
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One Family Homes To Solve New York’s Congestion
The article begins with the proclamation that “a prominent engineer and statistician recently estimated that by the year 1950 New York City’s population would exceed 19,000,000!” It goes on to explain that businesses will displace residences in Manhattan, which will see a population decrease, but Queens and Brooklyn will blow up to 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 […]
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Edison Plans An Automatic Clerkless Shop
When I first read the headline, I thought “That sounds like an automat. I had no idea that Thomas Edison invented the automat!” But then I did some research and it turns out that Edison didn’t invent the automat. The first automat in the US had been in business for eight years before this article […]
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The New Times Square Looking Toward The North
This lovely illustration projects what Times Square will look like once then-current construction is finished. It filled the entire front page of the Magazine Section. It really deserves to be viewed as a PDF zoomed larger than full screen to appreciate the amount of detail that’s in this image. I couldn’t find a corresponding photo […]
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