a 'steampunk' history of 19th century Jamaica
before
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at sea
- paddle-wheel steamers
- screw-propeller steamers
on land
- mining
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- copper
- iron structures
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- the iron bridge
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1799 act
- the Naval Hospital
- the Morant Point Lighthouse
- the iron church
- the railway
- on the roads
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- traction engines
- bicycles
- steam rollers
- horseless carriages
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- on the motor car
- street cars
'up in the air'
- ballooning and beyond
- telecommunications
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- telegraph
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Admiral's Pen
- early electric telegraph
- international telegraph
- island-wide telegraph
- telephone
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- acoustic telephones
- the Jamaica Telephone Company I
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who was C Lambdin?
- Hodge's 'Kiosk'
- the Jamaica Telephone Company II
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- some of the investors
light and power
- the old
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- candles
- water
- wind
- the new
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- kerosene
- gas
- electricity
entertainment
- merry-go-rounds
- image technology
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- magic lanterns
- panoramas
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- the 'Panorama'
- panopticons
- transparencies
- photography
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F. A. Freeman
O. & E. Bavastro
J. B Valdés
- kinetoscope
- sound technology
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- melodeons & such
- 'music boxes'
- Edison phonograph 1878
boobies eggs
- the phonograph continued
- toys
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- Pharoah's Serpents
- games & puzzles
at home & work
- agriculture
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- Mountain Cabbage
- silk
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'Mulberry Mania' USA
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Samuel Whitmarsh
and in Jamaica
- and cotton
- ramie
- pimento sticks
- bitterwood
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bibliography
- turtle industries
- clothing
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Edmiston & Son
- ice
- the Etna and other such devices
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- 'London Society', vol 14, 1868
- matches
- the sewing machine
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- 'London Society', vol 15, 1869
- typewriters & other office equipment
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Lithograms
'Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts'
- food & drink
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- baking bread
- boobies eggs
- liquid refreshment
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Arctic Soda Water Apparatus
- soap
- tobacco indusry
- washing machines
research
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visiting researchers
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from Johns Hopkins
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New Brighton
'Columbus Marine Biological Station'
medical research
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- vaccination
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a treatise on the cow-pox
- Minot Digest, Vaccination Laws
at home and work >
clothing >
Edmiston & Son
Charles Spyns Edmiston, and Son, London
advertisement at front of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House'. published 1853
other advertisements in Dickens' publications: