BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2005
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SPRING 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 2
SPECIAL ISSUE: MADE IN CONNECTICUT
 Twain’s Love Affair with Technology
Rentschler Reaches for the Sky
1896 Electric Cars Hit Hartford Streets
The Silk Route Leads to Manchester
On the cover:
Top row, left to right: The Pope Mark I electric automobile, 1897; Landers, Frary & Clark’s coffee percolator, c. 1914; Pratt & Whitney Aircraft’s Wasp engine, c. 1926.
Middle row, left to right: Horace Wells; Mark Twain’s self-pasting scrapbook; G. Snow’s Match Safe patent drawing.
Bottom row, left to right: Teaching the mechanics of speech to the deaf; Ribbon loom, Cheney Brothers, 1914; Fundamental Orders, 1639.
| Contents |
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From the Publisher: |
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Letters, etc. |
| pg 14 |
The Mother School of Deaf Education. By Gary E. Wait |
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The Horseless Era Arrives.
By David Corrigan |
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Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?
By Walter Woodward |
| pg 28 |
Innovations in Silk.
By Charles B. Fears |
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Accent on an American Language.
By Tracey Wilson |
| pg 38 |
Mark Twain, Inventor.
By Sujata Srinivasan |
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Catherine Beecher and Domestic Science.
By Dawn C. Adiletta |
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The Sky’s the Limit.
By Jack Connors |
| pg 48 |
The Discovery of Anesthesia.
By William A MacDonnell, D.D.S. |
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re: Collections
A self-pumping shower to fit any Empire decor.
By Richard C. Malley |
| pg 52 |
Resource
Where a plethora of Connecticut patents are to be found.
By Dean Nelson |
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Destination
Two museums devoted to the ingenuity of Connecticut inventors.
Museum of Connecticut History.
By Cynthia CormierNew Britian Industrial Museum.
By Lois Blomstrann |
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Soapbox
Ingenuity is the hallmark of the Connecticut River Valley.
By Wilson H. Faude |
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Afterword
Report on a symposium on the African American experience, and recently published books of local interest. |
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SPRING 2005
• The Horseless Era Arrives
• Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?
• The Sky’s the Limit
• A Century of Connecticut Inventions
2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School
• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens
• Lunch with Monet
AUG/SEP/OCT 2004
• The Education of Ella Grasso
• Ancient Burying Ground
• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager
MAY/JUN/JUL 2004
• Miracle on Capital Avenue
• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War
• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life
FEB/MAR/APR 2004
• Hospital Rock
• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback
2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004
• A War Contested
• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”
• Manufacturing for the War Effort
• Fighting for Freedom
SUMMER 2003
• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age
• Audacious Alliances
• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets
SPRING 2003
• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces
• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy
• The Hartford Dark Blues
WINTER 2003
• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing
• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street
• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge
FALL 2002
• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut
• A “Tomitude”
