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On the date

Monday, June 17, 1901

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Tactile

The heavy wool of my high-collared frock coat chafes against my neck, a stifling weight compared to the cold, perforated steel of the newly patented Meccano sets I’ve been analyzing. These interlocking strips represent the dawn of a modular future, much like the invisible threads of the first Transatlantic Radio Signal now tethering our disjointed continents together. It is truly capital how these rigid materials contrast with the soft, billowing dust kicked up by the clattering Booth vacuum cleaner in the hall. While laborers grumble about foreign arrivals, I feel the shift in the very fabric of our reality through these jagged metal toys and the hum of a world becoming increasingly wired and electric.

Memories from that day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blaze Away

Abe Holzmann

The must-have

Lionel Trains

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1901

  • Good to the last drop

Tech Check

Transatlantic Radio Signal, Vacuum Cleaner & Meccano.

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

45,644 days ago

(125 years, 19 days)