The Untold Story of the Man Who Called Himself the “Black Edison”
(via Popular Mechanics) It’s 3 AM on July 25, 1916, and Garrett Morgan’s phone rings. The voice on the other
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Month: September 2016
The First Mass Produced and Best-Selling Chair in the World
(via The Vintage News) The chair that you have definitely seen gazillion times and mostly likely reminds us to a nice
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Why the Purple Skittle Tastes Different Outside America
(via Atlas Obscura) Pop quiz: What flavor is the purple Skittle? If you grew up tasting the rainbow in the
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The Lost Drawings Of An Artist Who Spent His Life In A Lunatic Asylum
(via Fast Co. Design) James Edward Deeds Jr. was destined to be a completely unknown artist.Declared insane in 1936 at
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8 Curious Recipes From the Depression Era
(via mental_floss) According to historians, modern society can learn a lot from the myriad of ways people put food on
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The Origins of 25 Fall Traditions
(via mental_floss) If your fall bucket list includes carving jack-o’-lanterns, sipping apple cider, and toasting s’mores over a bonfire, you’re
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This Enormous Slip ‘n’ Slide Is The Size Of A Football Field
This absolutely massive DIY slip ‘n’ slide was constructed by a few psyched up Australians in honor of Australia Day.
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The Art Of The Car Sales Brochure
(via Fast Co. Design) It sounds quaint by today’s marketing standards, but for much of the 20th century, if you
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Visitors to America’s First National Parks
(via Retronaut) c. 1870-1916 Opening America’s first national park. Retronaut has a series of images of early visitors to America’s
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The Painstaking, Secretive Process Of Designing New Money
(via Fast.co Design) Australia has a new $5 banknote, and it looks expensive. Bend the note, and a printed bird
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What did Manhattan look like in 1609?
(via JSTOR) Humans and wilderness maintain a binary separation. We’re saturated with images of species gone extinct, acres of ancient
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How Houdini Stayed in an Underwater Coffin for 90 Minutes
(via mental_floss) By 1926, the year he died, Harry Houdini had made an elephant disappear, walked out of a brick
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