By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the well-known suffragist. His great world and all that is in it belongs to women as much as to men. It is our world in full half share; not to divide and manage separately, but to administer as a whole together. All our previous history up…
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Jane Lead
Sixty Propositions from Jane Lead in 1697, England
Jane Leade (1623–1704), an English prophetess and founder of the Philadelphian Society in 1652, authored profound writings about the spiritual preparation for Christ’s 1000-year reign on Earth. Although she is not officially counted among the seven latter-day messengers following Joanna Southcott, her work experienced a remarkable revival nearly three centuries…
Esquire’s Profile of Nikola Tesla: Ahead of His Time
by Dick Holdsworth in Esquire, October, 1947 Recounting the career of Nikola Tesla, whose eccentric traits were outweighed by his generosity and inventive genius Sketch of an older Nikola Tesla The place was New York’s Mulberry Street section, “Little Italy”; the time, shortly before seven o’clock in the evening of…
Robert A. Heinlein
Before Heinlein became a celebrated science fiction author, he pursued a career in engineering. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Physics from the United States Naval Academy in 1929. After graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy as an officer for five years. During his time…
The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.
The 1906 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race marked a significant milestone in the history of aviation and aeronautics. The event, named after the American newspaper magnate Gordon Bennett, was held on October 1st, 1906, in Paris, France. Gordon Bennett, born in 1841, was an American millionaire and yachtsman who had a…