BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2005

SPRING 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 2
SPECIAL ISSUE: MADE IN CONNECTICUT

Twain’s Love Affair with Technology

Rentschler Reaches for the Sky

1896 Electric Cars Hit Hartford Streets

The Silk Route Leads to Manchester

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On the cover: Top row, left to right: The Pope Mark I electric automobile, 1897; Landers, Frary & Clark’s coffee percolator, c. 1914; Pratt & Whitney Aircraft’s Wasp engine, c. 1926. Middle row, left to right: Horace Wells; Mark Twain’s self-pasting scrapbook; G. Snow’s Match Safe patent drawing.Bottom row, left to right: Teaching the mechanics of speech to the deaf; Ribbon loom, Cheney Brothers, 1914; Fundamental Orders, 1639.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher: The Silicon Valley of the 19th Century. By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	American School for the Deaf: The Mother School of Deaf Education. By Gary E. Wait
pg 20	The Horseless Era Arrives. By David Corrigan
pg 26	Creative License, or Fundamental Fact? Are We the Constitution State? By Walter Woodward
pg 28	Cheney Brothers: Innovations in Silk. By Charles B. Fears
pg 36	Noah Webster: Accent on an American Language. By Tracey Wilson
pg 38	Mark Twain, Inventor! By Sujata Srinivasan
pg 42	Catherine Beecher and Domestic Science. By Dawn C. Adiletta
pg 44	Frederick Rentschler: The Sky’s the Limit. By Jack Connors
pg 48	Horace Wells & The Discovery of Anesthesia. By William A MacDonnell, D.D.S.
pg 50	Horace Wells, Inventor of the Improved Shower Bath. By Richard C. Malley A self-pumping shower to fit any Empire decor.
pg 52	Resource Where a plethora of Connecticut patents are to be found. By Dean Nelson
pg 54	Destination Two museums devoted to the ingenuity of Connecticut inventors. Museum of Connecticut History. By Cynthia Cormier New Britian Industrial Museum. By Lois Blomstrann
pg 58	Soapbox Ingenuity is the hallmark of the Connecticut River Valley. By Wilson H. Faude
pg 60	Afterword Report on a symposium on the African American experience, and recently published books of local interest.

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