Archive: October 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Ellen Terrell; (Year) 2018; (Month) October

Photograph of train car and ships in the port with many people working at unloading

Sam the Banana Man

October 11, 2018

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Meet the banana man Sam Zemurray.

Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Back to School with the Blackboard -1817’s Newest Teaching Technology

October 3, 2018

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was updated to reflect that it was written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. By the 1840s this teaching aid was being lauded as miracle of instruction. In an article published in The Common School Journal in 1844 “… a great discovery, almost equal …

Posted in: Science

Refined by: (Author) Ellen Terrell; (Year) 2018; (Month) October