Keywords: invention
Item 13368
Testimony concerning pump invention, 1823
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1823-02-26 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 33451
King's Highway mile marker B 135, Cumberland, 1975
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Cumberland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
Exhibit
Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations: Inventions & Creations
"… Illustrations: Inventions & Creations"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833
"… began writing in 1864, Martin described a cart he invented in about 1833 -- and provided a detailed illustration."
Story
Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25
How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.
Story
Working as a telephone operator in the 1940s
by Doris Tardy
Working as a telephone operator in 1946 was new and exciting, and challenging.
