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How the Bicycle Helped Usher in the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890)January 14, 2021 at 4:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE
The early history of the bicycle did not promise great things—or anything, really—for women at the dawn of the 19th century. A two-wheeled bicycle-like invention, for example, built in 1820, “was more like an agricultural implement in construction than a bicycle,” one bicycle history notes. Made of wood, the “hobby horses” and velocipedes of cycling’s first decades rolled on iron wheels. Their near-total lack of suspension led to the epithet “b...Tags: Google, New York, Congress, College, France, San Francisco, History, Atlantic, Ohio, Vox, Belle Epoque, Facebook Twitter, Adrienne LaFrance, Josh Jones, Susan B Anthony, London Paris 116 people like this. Like How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890)January 14, 2021 at 4:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE
The early history of the bicycle did not promise great things—or anything, really—for women at the dawn of the 19th century. A two-wheeled bicycle-like invention, for example, built in 1820, “was more like an agricultural implement in construction than a bicycle,” one bicycle history notes. Made of wood, the “hobby horses” and velocipedes of cycling’s first decades rolled on iron wheels. Their near-total lack of suspension led to the epithet “b...Tags: Google, New York, Congress, College, France, San Francisco, History, Atlantic, Ohio, Vox, Belle Epoque, Facebook Twitter, Adrienne LaFrance, Josh Jones, Susan B Anthony, London Paris 146 people like this. Like How Technicolor Revolutionized Cinema with Surreal, Electric Colors & Changed How We See Our WorldDecember 5, 2017 at 7:00 AM Though only one process in a very long history of film coloring techniques, from hand-tinting to chemical and mechanical means, Technicolor has had the most influence of them all. During the Golden Age of cinema, the 1930s and 40s, the technology was “undoubtedly,” write Kristen Thompson and David Bordwell in their Film History, "the most striking innovation” of the era, and it came to dominate by way of massive hit films like The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. It didn’t hurt that ...Tags: Google, Film, College, Atlantic, Stanley Kubrick, Kansas, Dorothy, Technicolor, Judy Garland, Facebook Twitter, Edwards, Adrienne LaFrance, Josh Jones, David Bordwell, Durham NC Follow, LaFrance 111 people like this. Like |
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