On November 29, 1910, the first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
The photograph below, courtesy of Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections, shows one of the early traffic lights.
Posted in images, physical object, tagged 1926, automobiles, children, Pittsburgh, police, traffic lights on November 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On November 29, 1910, the first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
The photograph below, courtesy of Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections, shows one of the early traffic lights.
Posted in Arts, images, text, tagged anthropology, celebration, Holidays, Native Americans, pictographs, Sioux, Thanksgiving, Theodore Lambie on November 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. On November 26, 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
The image below, courtesy of Western Waters Digital Library, depicts in “sign language” (or pictographs) how Thanksgiving day is celebrated by the American Indians. Theodore Lambie, young Sioux, created this picture for the readers of “Indians at Work,” official publication of the Indian service, in 1937.
Posted in images, Place, Science, tagged geography, maps, North Carolina on November 21, 2009| Leave a Comment »
220 years ago, on November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th U.S. state. This map of North Carolina published around the same time, ca. 1799, is courtesy of North Carolina Maps digital collection, part of a larger Documenting the American South collection.
Posted in images, tagged Burlington Route map, continental time zones, railroad maps on November 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On November 18, 1883, American and Canadian railroads instituted five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
This railroad map, published in 1892, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Map Collections, 1500-1999, shows four time zones: Eastern, Central, Pacific, and Mountain. Alaska, which is not shown on this map, belongs to the 5th North American continental time zone — Alaskan.
Posted in Health, images, text, tagged cookbooks, diabetes, Diabetes Week (1958), Los Angeles Diabetes Association, recipes, recipes for diabetic, World Diabetes Day on November 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
World Diabetes Day is tomorrow, November 14.
The photograph above, courtesy of LA Examiner Digital Archive, was taken in January 1958 during the Diabetes Week interview with Doctors Samuel Soskin (President of the Los Angeles Diabetes Association), Murray Weiss (Chairman of the Detection Drive), and Roy F. Perkins (Treasurer of the Los Angeles Diabetic Association).
The item below, courtesy of Feeding America digital collection, is the first page in the 23-pages-long list of recipes for people suffering from diabetes, which was published in a Diabetes chapter in a historic Fannie Merritt Farmer’s cookbook Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent (1904). To view the rest of the recipes in this chapter, click on the image below.