GO to MOOT POINT: EARLY VERSIONS of things

Sebastien Lenormand's successful 1783 parachute jump at l'Observatoire de Montpellier

... the actual parachute was 14 feet across in size

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a 1922 shopping mall photograph showing the interior floors

a 1922 shopping mall ... most big cities had shopping malls by the 1880s

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a reproduction of a prehistoric cave painting in Spain

see full size

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A New Star The Fairy Radium, a 1903 cartoon about radium and science. Madam Curie

"A New Star ... The Fairy Radium" a 1903 cartoon about science discovering radium

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a very large 1931 portable car radio, photograph

a 1931 portable radio for the home or car

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a Hanna Harbera animated television advertisement for Kellogg's Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal, Art Lozzi was the background artist

some alleged early Americans in a Hanna Harbera animated tele-

vision advertisement for Kellogg's Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal
... Art Lozzi was the background artist see full size

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a 1920 truck tattler, hour and minute of each start and stop, the mileage gas and oil consumption, a photograph

a 1920 'tattler' told employers what their truck drivers were doing "... hour and minute of each start and stop, the mileage, gas and oil consumption ... etc." Tattlers are still used today

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natural corn, before progressive modification

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1830 USA Wolf Point or infant Chicago, an illustration

"Wolf Point, or infant Chicago" 1830

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1874 Chicago, an illustrated birdseye view

"The city of Chicago" 1874 see full size

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jazz drummer Buddy Rich in 1923 was named Traps The Drum Wonder, a photograph

famous jazz drummer Buddy Rich, as a child in 1923 was named "Traps The Drum Wonder"

Buddy Rich

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our devil, this character used by various advertisers was later developed into MAD's comedy mascot Alfred E. Neuman

"our devil" . . . this character was used by various advertisers in 1902, and was later developed
into MAD's comedy mascot 'Alfred E. Neuman'

Alfred E. Neuman

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1882 New York City from a bird's eye view see full size

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1718 North America

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Cinema Academy Manager Rejects Color, a 1936 movie industry prediction

in this 1936 cinema industry magazine article,

the Manager of the Academy of Cinema

explains why the new color films are just

a novelty that will soon return to

black and white

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The earliest known picture of a hat store from 1505

"The earliest known picture of a hat store, 1505"

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a 1554 European illustration of a whale

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1642 Dragon of the Deep, an illustration of a sea cow or walrus

"The Dragon of the Deep" a 1642 walrus?

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1489 Magnetic rocks which attract the flesh of men, an illustration of bad science, Defensorium Eisenhut

"Magnetic rocks which attract the flesh of men" 1489

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a 1600s submarine design "the earliest known picture of an under-

water vessel ... besides the mechanical contrivance of his vessel he
had a chemical liquor ... from time to time he perceived that the finer
and purer part of the air was consumed ..." see full size

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Gambling in a Brothel, a 1500s illustration

"Gambling in a Brothel" 1500s

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1920s ice cream truck, a photograph, Carry's Ice Cream

an ice cream truck, 1920s? see full size

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the 1949 cinema serial "Batman & Robin"

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1899 Rontgen X Ray "... complete destruction of the skin, and subjacent
tissues, and a subsequent ulcer which was accompanied by alarming
symptoms and which only healed after many months of continued
care and treatment"

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