Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901
 

 

 

 height: 4' 6"
French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator.
http://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/

 

At the Moulin Rouge, 1895

 



At the Moulin Rouge, 1895

 

Moulin Rouge La Goulue

Equestrienne at the Cirque Fernando

 

The White Horse 'Gazelle', 1881

 

 

La Toilette 1889

Nude Standing before a Mirror

 

The Dancer in Her Dressing Room

 

 

Partie de campagne

 

The World's First Jukebox

This day in music history:
November 23, 1889- The world's first jukebox is installed.

November 23, 1889- The world's first jukebox is installed.

 Constructed by the Pacific Phonograph Company it consisted of four stethoscope-like tubes attached to an Edison Class M electric phonograph fitted inside an oak cabin...et. The tubes operated individually, each being activated by the insertion of a coin, meaning that four different listeners could be plugged in to the same song simultaneously....up to two minutes, all for a nickel. The machine was originally called the “nickel-in-the-slot player” by Louis T. Glass, the entrepreneur who installed it at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Fransisco.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/jukebox_history_of_coin_operated_phonographs.html
http://81.83.5.134/doc-pub/lists/tijdlijn/tijdlijn04_grote-wereldrijken(1860-1891).html

First Motorcycle Woman

 

 

 

September 15,1937:
Sally Halterman is the first woman granted a license to operate a motorcycle in Washington, D.C.
http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/07/18/first-motorcycle-license-granted-to-a-woman/

 

 

Bertha Benz

 

 

 

August 5, 1888:

Bertha Benz, with the help of her two sons, became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance - 66 miles.

The Black Pope

 

 

"Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully.  And I think we're all a bit of crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior.  Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another"

 

Anton Szandor LaVey
April 11, 1930 - October 29, 1997

George W. G. Ferris

 

 

 

The world's first Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.

The world’s first Ferris wheel , in construction, for the Chicago world's fair. (1893)

 

George W. G. Ferris, Jr.
February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896

 

George W. G. Ferris, Jr
February 14, 1859 - November 22, 1896

 ...bthuilt the first Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair to prove that America could top the Eiffel Tower. During planning for the fair, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel offered to build a tower larger than the one he had built in Paris but the planning committee insisted the work be from American genius. The giant wheel had 36 cars that could hold 60 people for a total of 2,160 passengers at a time, and was as high as a 26 story building.

The First Underwater Photo

 

 

 

The world's first underwater photo.
photographer: William Thompson
February 1893

http://www.filmsnotdead.com/2012/02/26/the-worlds-first-underwater-photograph/