Retro-futurist Anticipations
03/25/2009 16:58
Things to track down:
HG Wells Anticipations and Wells’ life.
Other people to consider? Oscar Wilde?
Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) (also built the Crystal Paris, Santiago rail station, etc) and also.
Also Edison’s life in pics (Pop Sci 1929)
Maybe the thing that killed the airship was its military use in WWI. If not for that, it may have prospered, and the French and British may have continued working on it, as well as Count Zeppelin. Also, and here’s a brief timeline:
Sir William Ramsay (1895) discovers helium in rock – large concentrations found in France.
In 1896, “Public Opinion” reprints an American military article on “The Influence of the Air-Ship on War.”
1901 Smithsonian article on “Count von Zeppelin’s Dirigible Airship.”
1903 Outing presents “Yachting Among the Clouds.”
In 1909, McClure’s Magazine featured a long article on “The Aërial Battleship.”
1919 artcicle on “Commercial Production of Helium”
Pop. Sci 1923 was talking about US airships and helium…
Even 1945 Pop Sci was still hoping for a new airship age…
And then there’s real transportation for the people – bicycles!
And the occasional steam-bike.
Okay. Back to the causes of WWI. For my purposes, this might be boiled down to basically, Bismarck and the isolation of France from GB. The 3rd Republic , probably some good things in the Boulanger and Dreyfus crises (and) – this would be a good way to incorporate CB, Thiers, the Paris Commune, Zola, and even to flash back to Disraeli, Rothschild, and Paine v. Burke.
HG Wells Anticipations and Wells’ life.
Other people to consider? Oscar Wilde?
Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) (also built the Crystal Paris, Santiago rail station, etc) and also.
Also Edison’s life in pics (Pop Sci 1929)
Maybe the thing that killed the airship was its military use in WWI. If not for that, it may have prospered, and the French and British may have continued working on it, as well as Count Zeppelin. Also, and here’s a brief timeline:
Sir William Ramsay (1895) discovers helium in rock – large concentrations found in France.
In 1896, “Public Opinion” reprints an American military article on “The Influence of the Air-Ship on War.”
1901 Smithsonian article on “Count von Zeppelin’s Dirigible Airship.”
1903 Outing presents “Yachting Among the Clouds.”
In 1909, McClure’s Magazine featured a long article on “The Aërial Battleship.”
1919 artcicle on “Commercial Production of Helium”
Pop. Sci 1923 was talking about US airships and helium…
Even 1945 Pop Sci was still hoping for a new airship age…
And then there’s real transportation for the people – bicycles!
And the occasional steam-bike.
Okay. Back to the causes of WWI. For my purposes, this might be boiled down to basically, Bismarck and the isolation of France from GB. The 3rd Republic , probably some good things in the Boulanger and Dreyfus crises (and) – this would be a good way to incorporate CB, Thiers, the Paris Commune, Zola, and even to flash back to Disraeli, Rothschild, and Paine v. Burke.
