Other Things in 1897

[rich]

hmm, can't say I remember that but u may be right

for those interested here are some short clips by edison of Chicago in 1897

http://chicago.about.com/library/weekly/aa021901a.htm


On 7/14/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> wasn't that ghost-testimoney mentioned in A Frolic of His Own?  Or
> something similar...
>
> Interesting tidbits.
>
> On 7/14/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > January 23 - Elva Zona Heaster found dead in Greenbrier County, West
> > Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only
> > case in United States history where the testimony of a ghost helped
> secure a
> > conviction.
> >
> > July 11 - S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 begins. The
> > ill-fated expedition to fly over the arctic results in the death of the
> > entire team within months
> >
> > September 10 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more
> than
> > nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
> >
> > France allows women to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
> > First use of the word computer meaning an electronic calculation device.
> > J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle
> >
> >
> > J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle
> >
>
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