As you no doubt recall from our last thrilling episode, we were looking at some of the ways postcard makers showed the comic possibilities of new technologies. The automobile, the telephone, the phonograph: all were used for gags ranging from the merely cheerful to the rollicking. (If you were not, personally, rollicked by anyContinue reading “The Romance of Science”
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Oldfangled
I am sure that the first Stone Age citizen who watched his neighbor cooking his dinner over this newfangled thing called fire shook his head and said, “Society’s getting too involved with these new inventions.” I say this as one who is sitting here writing this column on a machine which I once wouldContinue reading “Oldfangled”
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