a 'steampunk' history of 19th century Jamaica
  • before
    • - pages started
    • blog
    • links
  • at sea
    • - paddle-wheel steamers
    • - screw-propeller steamers
  • on land
    • - mining >
      • - copper
    • - iron structures >
      • - the iron bridge >
        • 1799 act
      • - the Naval Hospital
      • - the Morant Point Lighthouse
      • - the iron church
    • - the railway
    • - on the roads >
      • - traction engines
      • - bicycles
      • - steam rollers
      • - horseless carriages >
        • - on the motor car
      • - street cars
  • 'up in the air'
    • - ballooning and beyond
    • - telecommunications >
      • - telegraph >
        • Admiral's Pen
        • - early electric telegraph
        • - international telegraph
        • - island-wide telegraph
      • - telephone >
        • - acoustic telephones
        • - the Jamaica Telephone Company I >
          • who was C Lambdin?
          • - Hodge's 'Kiosk'
        • - the Jamaica Telephone Company II >
          • - some of the investors
  • light and power
    • - the old >
      • - candles
      • - water
      • - wind
    • - the new >
      • - kerosene
      • - gas
      • - electricity
  • entertainment
    • - merry-go-rounds
    • - image technology >
      • - magic lanterns
      • - panoramas >
        • - the 'Panorama'
        • - panopticons
      • - transparencies
      • - photography >
        • F. A. Freeman
        • O. & E. Bavastro
        • J. B Valdés
      • - kinetoscope
    • - sound technology >
      • - melodeons & such
      • - 'music boxes'
      • - Edison phonograph 1878
      • boobies eggs
      • - the phonograph continued
    • - toys >
      • - Pharoah's Serpents
      • - games & puzzles
  • at home & work
    • - agriculture >
      • - Mountain Cabbage
      • - silk >
        • 'Mulberry Mania' USA >
          • Samuel Whitmarsh
        • and in Jamaica
      • - and cotton
      • - ramie
      • - pimento sticks
      • - bitterwood >
        • bibliography
    • - turtle industries
    • - clothing >
      • Edmiston & Son
    • - ice
    • - the Etna and other such devices >
      • - 'London Society', vol 14, 1868
    • - matches
    • - the sewing machine >
      • - 'London Society', vol 15, 1869
    • - typewriters & other office equipment >
      • Lithograms
      • 'Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts'
    • - food & drink >
      • - baking bread
      • - boobies eggs
      • - liquid refreshment >
        • Arctic Soda Water Apparatus
    • - soap
    • - tobacco indusry
    • - washing machines
    • research >
      • visiting researchers >
        • from Johns Hopkins >
          • New Brighton
          • 'Columbus Marine Biological Station'
      • medical research >
        • - vaccination >
          • a treatise on the cow-pox
          • - Minot Digest, Vaccination Laws
entertainment >
image technology >
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