DescriptionCirca 1827 broadside of a “Reaping, Cutting and Gathering Machine” most likely of James Ten Eyck. Born May 2, 1773 in North Branch, New Jersey, James Ten Eyck passed his days as a farmer in...
DescriptionVictor Talking Machine Company (1901–1929) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world...
DescriptionOn December 10, 1889, Mr. V. H. Emerson of Newark, New Jersey, an "electrician of long experience," demonstrated Thomas A. Edison's phonograph to the greater public of Hightstown, New Jersey. The...
DescriptionIn February 1872, Washington Augustus Roebling looked on as a caisson for the New York and Brooklyn Bridge (later known as the East River Bridge and subsequently the Brooklyn Bridge for short) was...
DescriptionMatsudaira Tadanari (松平忠礼) came to Rutgers College in 1875 from a Japanese samurai family. He became head of the family after his father's early death. He graduated from Rutgers College in...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period (1868-1912)
DescriptionMatsukata Kōjirō son of Count Matsukata, entered Rutgers College in 1885 through the Rutgers College Grammar School. While at Rutgers College, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and a...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
DescriptionIn the twentieth century, Spain’s Fascist uprising, ensuing civil war and thirty-six-year Franco dictatorship jettisoned an estimated 114,226 citizens to mass graves and roadside ditches, and...
