Technological History · The Burleigh Family of Plainfield, Connecticut: An Anti-Racist Abolitionist Legacy

Technological History

Title: Technological History
Description: Instances where the Burleigh family members reflect on changes brought about by technology, including railroads, telephones, telegraph, &c.

Charles Calistus Burleigh's Pocket Watch - detail of watch face
Close-up of watch face, pocket watch owned by Charles C. Burleigh. Photo taken by Jennifer Rycenga at Historic Northampton, July 27, 2024. Some glare on lower right side
Machine of Edward Wright
Drawing of invention and patent documents through his attorney Charles Hartwell Burleigh
Machine patent copyright prepared by Charles Hartwell Burleigh
Drawing of an invention brought to Charles Hartwell Burleigh, who was a patent attorney
Pocket Watch of Charles Calistus Burleigh
Pocket Watch with key and chain
Rhode Island's Place in Telephone History
Telegraph Lines and the Press
Short article about telegraph companies leaving a dedicated wire for the media - and then a filler, a nineteenth-century equivalent of "this page left intentionally blank"
Telephoning
A poem about a girl playing at using a "telephone" with her mother
The Telephone, by Alexander Graham Bell
Illustration of early telephone developed by Alexander Graham Bell