Or one might look at Turner’s astonishingRain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway(exhibited 1844), whose rendering of elemental swirl and tumult makes it close kin to hisSnow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth…(1842). But where the earlier painting shows the paddle w...
So, my mom would bundle us up while smoking a Salem cigarette in one hand until she had to zipper our coats, and that’s when she would put the cigarette in her mouth and try to talk out of the corner of her mouth at the same time. “Vickie, quit squirming.” I was squirming be...
The amazing developments of 1900–20 represented mobility’s first inflection point. They took us from steam to internal-combustion engines (ICEs), the “Great Horse Manure Crisis” of 1894 to “Big Oil,” and premium automobiles for the few to mass-produced cars for the millions. They...