Hallo,
Steam is all the rage in these modern times and its no different on the waters. Robert Fulton’s one of a kind steamboat, The Clermont, set (un)sail (guffaw!) for the first time two fortnights ago on a foggy Tuesday morn.
Spectators were bewildered to see the 130 foot schooner slice through water with nary a breeze. [...]
Archive for May, 2009
First steamboat launches – sailing boat fannboys decry “Ho Hum” – 1807
Posted in Transportation, tagged Steam on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Luddites – Pretty well over the bay indeed! – 1811
Posted in Uprisings on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hallo,
When will they ever learn? Machines will always need people to run. Imagine a world where machines could think and make goods themselves. Ha! Progress Ahoy Luddites.. Progress Ahoy!
Credit to John Macklfish for the on-site rendering.
Dung Be Gone – Horseless Carriage Wha? – 1803
Posted in Transportation, tagged buggy whips, Carriage, Steam, Trevithick on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hallo,
Richard Trevithick has finally put his high pressure steam engine to good use. His latest mechanical marvel is a Carriage powered not by horse or Chinaman, but by the power of steam. No specifications are yet available but passengers report the ride is miserable. Trevithick claims this is an early prototype, but thinks the future [...]
Eli Whitney Mass Layoffs – Overpriced Cotton Gin Purveyor Gets Comeuppance – 1797
Posted in Redundancies, tagged Cotton Gin, counterfeit, Eli Whitney, Layoffs, Ragamuffin, vexation on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hallo,
Whitney’s fledgling company made 32 employees redundant today mauger the undeniable popularity of his contraption. Whitney sites the massive influx of counterfeit cotton gins as the source of his vexation. Making matters worse, tattle abounds that his patent renewal in ought-eight will be a tight scratch indeed.
Maybe you should price them to move, you [...]
