When determining the approximate age ofantiquebottles, the first thing to know is how the glass bottle was produced. From the mid-19th century through the early 20th century, most glass bottles took shape under a glassblower’s watchful eye. However, in the mid-20th century, automation took o...
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Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Mies van der Rohe, the 1400 glass and steel homewas commissionedby Chicago nephrologist Edith Farnsworth in 1945. An icon of modern design, Farnsworth Housewas purchasedby the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2003, opening its doors to the pu...
any ink here will flow down the slit to the tip of the nib. (And yes, all the inks are tested with the same old dip pen.) Mm-hmm. This is what we call a dry ink. I had to complete the entry with a glass nib, which wrote well enough, but then...
Google was hoping the world would want to see the world in a new way when it unveiled the first Google Glass in 2012. However, not many people were ready to shell out $1,500 for a pair. While the death of the original pair is reported in 2015, the technology lives on with the lau...
back in March 2015, at the terrace of a venue named Club Gourmet Callao (where they poured the dram on top of a huge pile of ice cubes for God knows what reason and I had to take most off. Besides, they used a G'n'T glass rather than a glencairn or an old-fashioned. Terrible....
Yellow Bunny Trading Co (eBay) Strangers’ Coats You may not know a Dave but Grandma inevitablyhad a jacket with his name emblazoned on ithanging in the coat closet. You’d ask who Dave was and she’d say, “He left that here years ago. Either fixed the washing machine or the fridge...
the screen. Called CRTs, they remained wildly popular until the 21st century, when LCD and other electronic displays outpaced them. Sonyshut down CRT production in 2008. Some gamers and retro enthusiastsstill use CRTs, but they're increasingly difficult to find outside of thrift shops or...
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William J. A. Bailey dissolved radium in water to create an energy drink he named RadiThor, which was just one piece ofthe American frenzyover the newly discovered element. Industrialist Eben McBurney Byers was rumored to have consumed 1,400 bottles to ease back and joint pain; eventually, ...