Carolyn Marvin: 2 books
When Old Technologies Were New
Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1988
In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of...
Hanging Ruth Blay
An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby.
On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth’s...