Historic Newspaper online
Very cool! The entire run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is now available online with a decent text search engine.
Check it out here:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902
The interface is a bit funky -- odd Java craplets but it's a good start for this impressive collection. Tesla was living in NY City at this time and the paper has quite a few articles on him including the fact that he was fined $100 (the equivalent fine today would be
$2215.56).
Posted by DaveH at September 7, 2006 5:02 PM