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liveleakcom - rare 1899 thomas edison pov train ride through pennsylvania
Bookmarked 537 weeks ago by liveleak here we see 2 clips both filmed by mr thomas edison himself from a train ride through the countryside of pennsylvania in the year 1899 edison was fa |
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liveleakcom - rare 1899 footage of new york during a great blizzard
Bookmarked 546 weeks ago by liveleak here we some footage of new york city during the great blizzard of 1899 where states all over the us were struck with legendary arctic level below zer |
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liveleakcom - rare 1899 thomas edison pov train ride through pennsylvania
Bookmarked 537 weeks ago here we see 2 clips both filmed by mr thomas edison himself from a train ride through the countryside of pennsylvania in the year 1899 edison was famous for these films which were known as phan |
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liveleakcom - rare 1899 footage of new york during a great blizzard
Bookmarked 546 weeks ago here we some footage of new york city during the great blizzard of 1899 where states all over the us were struck with legendary arctic level below zero temperatures |
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brooklyn to new york via brooklyn bridge 1899
Bookmarked 824 weeks ago sept 22 1899 edison manufacturing cothe bmt train ride from brooklyn to manhattan in 1898 the modern city of new york was formed with the consolidation of brooklyn until then an independent city manhattan and outlying areas the opening of the brooklyn bridge in 1883 did for the city what railroad expansion and the erie canal did for the nation the population was expanding due to immigration and commerce was booming in less than five years the need for several more bridges would be apparent as williamsburgh and the rest of brooklyn also grew in population on manhattan quotuptownquot was moving quickly past 14th street soon people would be calling it quotdowntownquot the subway system was already on its way july 29 1898at six o039clock in the evening a traffic jam near the brooklyn end of the bridge ties up wagons and trolleys all the way back to the manhattan entrance suddenly the bridge sags a few inches at two points approximately 250 feet on both sides of the manhattan tower on examination engineers find that several trusses buckled under the roadbed but they conclude that the damage is harmless and make no attempt to straighten the kinks for a few days after the incident the ferries running across the river eleven now compared with the fourteen that had existed during the building of the bridge do a brisk businessnew york city in 1899: the newly formed 039city of greater new york039 splits queens county hempstead north hempstead and oyster bay from nassau county sept 9th henry h bliss steps off of a streetcar at 74th st ampamp central park west and gets struck by a vehicle becoming new york city039s first automobile fatality dec 2nd trolleys begin running between jamaica and flushing in queensrecommended reading: the great east river bridge 1883-1983 - the brooklyn museum |
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