'Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light', London Review of Books
Tags: 2000; 2000-1-20; 2000s; Anna Silvas; Forteana; Heldegard of Bingen; Joseph Baird; Margret Berger; Medicine; Millennium Bug; Mysticism; Natural Philosophy; New Religious Movements; Newman, Barbara; Predictions; Priscilla Throop; Prophecies; Religious Experience; Sabina Flanagan
William Crookes 1892, Some Possibilities of Electricity, Fortnightly Review
An article by chemist and natural philosopher William Crookes describing his speculations about future uses of electricity
Tags: Electricity; Predictions; William Crookes
Electricity as a Factor in Happiness, 1881
Sceptical attack on electrical speculations about the future.
Tags: Electricity; Exhibitions; Predictions
Arthur Kennelly, Electricity in the Household, 1890
A description of how electricity would be used in the domestic settings of the future
Tags: Domestic Electricity; Illumination; Predictions; Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) Edison
Roger Riordan, A Dream of the Future World's Fair, 1901
Speculation about what would be on show in the World's Fairs of the future, in the context of the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
Tags: Pan American Exposition; Predictions; World Fairs
George Sylvester Viereck, A Machine to End War, 1935
An interview with Nikola Tesla, containing speculation about his inventions and the afterlife.
Tags: Death Rays; Predictions; Tesla; War
John Elfreth Watkins, What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years, 1900
Speculation about technological and social progress in the coming 20th century
Tags: 1900; Future; Predictions
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