LEGRAND LOCKWOOD, EARLY ADOPTER

Legrand Lockwood, Early adopter

For the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT

Steven Lubar, Brown University April 2013

Norwalk, Connecticut, 1836Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society

Phelps’ travellers guide through the united states, 1850

Norwalk, Connecticut, 1850Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society

Morse and the telegraph, 1840sGranger Collection

telegraph lines, proposed, 1857Courtesy Library of Congress

The Transatlantic Cable, 1858Courtesy Library of Congress

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854

Courtesy Library of Congress

Thoreau’s diaries and pencilsCourtesy The Morgan Library & Museum

CHAUNCEY THOMAS, The Crystal Button, 1891

Courtesy Open Library

Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of the Prairies, 1866

Spirit of Transportation

Karl Bitter, 1895 30th Street Station, Philadelpha

“Fifty Years from Now,” by Hugo GernsbacK, 1925

San Antonio Light, Feb. 8, 1925

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, House of the Seven Gables, 1851

Courtesy Open Library

“Terrors of the Telephone” - The orator of the Future

1877

"Mr. A. Merger Hogg is taking a few days' much-needed rest at his country home" 1903

Charles Dana Gibson

Harpers Weekly

1908

“We’ll all be happy then,” 1911Life Magazine, 1911

Syracuse Herald, June 8, 1919