This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Scientific Siftings and Inventions Across Worlds
Reports from travel and science cover plant variation in Japan, hydraulic erosion by mining flows, a sun spot theory, a thermo chemical battery by Brard, ancient rope making, an optical telegraph proposal for Mauritius and Reunion, a potent hemostatic plant Tradescantia, Siemens steam heat for year round light, and earthquake patterns.
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Mon. Brard
la Rochelle
Mauritius
Reunion
Indian Ocean