A label on this electric sterilizer reads “RENWAL / 120 VOLTS A. C. ONLY / STARTS 5 AMP. / RUNS 2 AMP. / STERILIZER No. 5 / PROTECTED BY US PATENTS / 2158692 / 2158698 / 223023[?] / 2230245 / ELECTRIC ...

This photograph shows Lucy Branham with a banner protesting the treatment of suffrage leader Alice Paul. In January 1917, discouraged by President Wilson’s continued opposition to the suffrage ...

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: The delicious flavor of this safe and efficient dentrifice makes it easy to form the important habit of brushing the teeth ...

In 1896, William McKinley became the Republican presidential nominee in the midst of an economic crisis that had been going on for three years. In response, one of his campaign slogans was a “full ...

In 1620 an English mathematician and astronomer named Edmund Gunter described a surveyor's chain with 100 links, measuring 66 feet (22 yards or 4 poles) overall. By this design, one square chain ...

Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women ...

At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...