 MILLION-VOLT LIGHTNING BOLT MACHINE in Wilseyville spits forks of
artificial lightning around landscape as AG&E (now NYSEG) studied their
effect on power lines. 1931 |
Edison's PHONOGRAPH exhibited at DeWitt Park Baptist Church. It plays the
Farmer Village Quartet, a cornet solo and brass band. Dr. Tichenor sings
into the machine, which repeats him. "Its possibilities defy the
imagination." 1890 |
City SPEED LIMIT increased to 10 miles per hour, and 15 miles per hour in
the suburbs. 1904 |
PLEASURE DRIVING BANNED during World War II. 1943 |
STREET LIGHT PARADE celebrates electric street lamps, on State Street
Merchants turn on store lights for occasion. 1916 |
FROZEN CONE OF SPRAY in the South Hill reservoir is 12-14 feet high and
still growing. 1883 |
| COAL THIEF Jasper Peep brought to judgement says, "I am a poor man and
trying to do as near right as I know how and I work whenever I can get to do
it. I did pick up the coal, but it is no more than others do or have done
every day." 1889 |
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First robber caught by ELECTRIC BURGLAR ALARM. 1887 |
| OIL WIZARD Ben Fulton of Ithaca finds oil by clenching an aluminum rod
between his teeth. His talent is employed in Western New York and
Pennsylvania. 1988 |
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