In July 1878, six women scientists, their attendants, a photographer and an artist gathered in Colorado on a panoramic plateau at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The group had a shared mission: Observe a total solar eclipse. Leading the expedition was celebrated astronomer Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet.
The eclipse captured national attention. The transcontinental railroad, completed the previous decade, made viewing the event accessible to people across the country. Mitchell and her crew —
A sledgehammer dealt the final blow to New York City’s dream of a paleontology museum.
On May 3, 1871, workers broke into the workshop of famed British artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Inside, they came upon a plaster skeleton of a towering duck-billed dinosaur — modeled after the first dinosaur fossil unearthed in New Jersey 13 years earlier — alongside a statue of the beast as it would have appeared in life.
These were the first 3-D renderings of any North
Rarely-seen photographs have been released which capture the essence of life as a 19th century London docker with ‘knocker uppers’ and exotic shipments arriving from across the globe – a world apart from the chaos at Britain’s docks today.
With a determined look on her face, a woman dressed in a cardigan and a long, flowing skirt wakes East London dockers with a pea shooter.
The famous image, taken by John Topham in Limehouse in 1927, shows the then well-known
