Tag: science
The Crazy Ideas of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was called the man of the future and his ideas were certainly ahead of his time. After all, the man predicted the use…
Human Energy Trapped in a Bottle?
Science and medicine was simply weird back in the early 1900s, especially when one doctor claimed that he captured and bottled human energy. Here is…
Fears of Biowarfare in 1902
Biowarfare is nothing new, and when you begin reading newspapers from over 100 years ago you will see that people had the same exact fears…
Oven Canning With Asbestos – Historical Information Only
Asbestos can cause malignant mesothelioma. No one should ever use anything made with asbestos. It can kill you. This article, published in 1916, illustrates how…
Asbestos A Stone That Floats
In the early 1900s, the world was in love with the wonders of asbestos and, truly, it is an amazing mineral that is mined from…
Electricity From Air
Free electricity from the air? Oh, no, no, no. We could never have that. Roy J. Meyers, in prison because he wrote a bad check,…
How Asbestos Was Mined In 1904
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…
Strange Scientific Ideas From 1922
Welcome to the land of strange science, where the “modern” men of 1922 came up with ideas that would normally be reserved for science fiction…
A 1911 Article On Facts Concerning Asbestos
There was a time when everyone was so excited about asbestos that they used it in everything. Unfortunately, no one knew of the real danger…
1908 Report Of The Gegenschien
Gegenschein is German for “counter shine.” The mystery covered in the article below is the reflection of the sun’s light against meteoric material. This reflection…
