JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This back page of the Scientific American for December 7, 1893, has it all: buggies of such speed that the army would want them; the great Comptometer (“prevents office headache” and I am sure it did so); the Comet Crusher Great Ballast and Ore Breaker; the Charter Gas Motor Company offering The motor of the 19th century; asbestos rolled roofing tarp; $50 Kodak cameras (equal to about $1200 in 2014 buying power according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), and so on. I can just about smell the sweet sweet oil that made everything function…
