Pessimists Archive Podcast

It was the first decade of the 1900s, the bicycle was now mainstream and manned flight was still a curious novelty, oh and reading in bed a dysfunctional sin.

Sources:  

Aeroplane Face: http://digital.chipublib.org/digital/collection/examiner/id/12588/ • 🤳📰 View in AR: https://pessimistsar-flight.netlify.app

Reading in Bed: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79793760/the-inter-ocean/

'THE AEROPHONE' - The New York Times, March 25, 1878, Page 4 • 🤳🗞 VIEW IN AR: https://bit.ly/3uMHcGZ

In 1878 The New York Times wrote a scathing article on Thomas Edison and his little known invention the 'Aerophone' (a giant megaphone.) The piece began "Something ought to be done to Mr. Edison, and there is a growing conviction that it had better be done with a hemp rope" joking some wanted to him hanged, it went on to say "Mr. Edison has invented too many things" A year later Thomas Edison would perfect the incandescent lightbulb, his most famous and consequential breakthrough.