Category: U.S. Historical News

Men, imagine not being allowed to get a shave on a Sunday. While going to the barber shop for a clean shave is pretty much…

How was asbestos mined and made into usable fibers? I honestly did not know that asbestos was mined (I was led to believe it was…

How are adobe bricks made? This account from 1883 explains the old process perfectly. Making Adobes Monday morning we drove down to see them making…

Asbestos deposits were mostly in Western United States. Canadians mined far more asbestos than we did 100+ years ago. It is interesting to note that…

Published in 1902, the article goes into the trade of diamond cutting. Apparently, diamond cutting was a great paying field to apprentice in over 100…

This 1912 article about a “new” sort of vehicle covers an invention that appears to be almost like something out of a video game and…

Long before people knew that asbestos could cause malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, they made the craziest stuff with it. Since it was fireproof, a Philadelphia tailor…

As television has dusted off the mystifying King Tutankhamen for the mini-series Tut (2015), they have once again muddied the waters of fact and fiction….

Time is still being explored by scientists: our perception of time and the effects of time. People have always tried to measure time, capture time,…

Who knew that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in asbestos cloth to help preserve the bodies? Absolutely fascinating stuff in this article, published in 1896, about…