#arc lamp

[nemfrog]

A carbon arc lamp in a glass tube. Experimental Science. 1895. Illustration appeared first in Scientific American.

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[energiadelladea]

Dewy Spider Web Floor Lamp by @/allebasigia on IG

[vintagehomecollection]

Barbara Taylor Bradford’s Easy Steps to Successful Decorating, 1971

[kslsrsc]

Charles F. Brush, Sr. and the origins of Planned Parenthood

This semester we performed a quality check on our first mass digitization project; The Charles F. Brush Sr. Papers.  Special Collections student assistant, Charlie Zoller, conducted the review and along the way became acquainted with many interesting facts about Brush, a wealthy Cleveland inventor, business owner and philanthropist.  

In his notes below, Charlie highlights Brush’s interest in overpopulation and chose to illustrate this post with a letter from Juliet Rublee, an early birth control advocate, to Brush regarding his support of her views.

After the death of Charles F. Brush, Jr. in 1927, he established the Brush Foundation to help curb overpopulation, which he viewed to be the greatest threat to humanity:

“In my opinion the most urgent problem confronting the world today is the rapid increase of population which threatens to overcrowd the earth…  and threaten civilization itself.”

Brush endowed his foundation with $500,000, ($7,000,000 today.) This allowed Planned Parenthood and similar institutions to take hold in Cleveland from the 1930s onward. 

[online source:  http://digital.case.edu/concern/texts/ksl:spcbru00365 Brush ]

For more information about Charles Brush and his involvement in the early Pro choice movement check out these items in our online collection:

About the Publicity of the Brush foundation: http://digital.case.edu/concern/texts/ksl:spcbru00238

About Charles’s reaction to the Brush Foundations early days: http://digital.case.edu/concern/texts/ksl:spcbru00178

[abybweisse]

What if the major plot development thing editor k is talking about was lizzy's death, and it's aftermath to seb and Ciel. Only to reveal in the future arc that it was a fake death. Ut's witty plan of course. What do you think?

I think it’s something to do with Undertaker and Lord Sirius… mostly.

I also think the earl and Sebastian will save Lizzie just in time. No death for Lizzie, no fake death for Lizzie.

I’ll be surprised if there is a full arc after this one, unless it’s either 1) dragging time out even longer before his 14th birthday or 2) Yana-san breaking away completely from the Mother3 framework see seems to have been using until then…. Instead of a full arc, we could get some wrap-up chapters. Kind of like the first chapters of the manga are not considered an actual arc by Yana-san. I say this because there was no lantern with symbols from the destroyed garden, the mouse hunt, or the earl being kidnapped by Vanel….

[energiadelladea]

Dewy Spider Web Floor Lamp by @/allebasigia on IG

[energiadelladea]

Dewy Spider Web Floor Lamp by @/allebasigia on IG

[factumobscura]

Did you know? The first electric street lamp was installed in Paris in 1878

The first electric street lamp was introduced in 1878 in Paris, France. Known as the arc lamp, it worked by creating a bright light between two carbon electrodes. These lamps were much brighter than gas lamps and quickly spread to cities around the world. Their intense light, however, was dazzling and not well suited for smaller streets, leading to the later development of incandescent bulbs for…

Did you know? The first electric street lamp was installed in Paris in 1878