A Trip Through New York City in 1911
Few Observations
It shows trams running without cables. One of them appears (after six
minutes) with a single antenna on top of it. Evidence of wireless
energy?
This video is restored with neural networks 1911 New York footage taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America:
People walk calm on the streets. Nicely dressed.
Transportation was done using horses, cars and trams wireless trams. At that time there were wireless telegraphs too. The harbour has lots of boats and public transportation is done also by boats.
It shows trams running without cables. One of them appears (after six
minutes) with a single antenna on top of it. Evidence of wireless
energy?
This video is restored with neural networks 1911 New York footage taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America:
People walk calm on the streets. Nicely dressed.
Transportation was done using horses, cars and trams wireless trams. At that time there were wireless telegraphs too. The harbour has lots of boats and public transportation is done also by boats.
Then this Vloger tried to find people in this video. Here is his research:
Mr. Lockowitz is only 40 in that video, yet looks to be in his 60's. He could be
Antoinette's father Konstantyn Cornelius Lochowicz in the front seat with the grand kids out for a drive. I'd also like to see if there are any lip readers out there who could determine what the young man in the back seat said to the driver at 2:33 in the video.
he's saying "are they filming us?"... or something like that.
Notice that if his whole estate were worth $1.9 million today, then at a value of $3.5 million per the Zillow shown here, he wouldn't be able to afford today the house he lived in back then.😟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s70RI_QC70
Just a note about the chauffeur... on the other video with this film, there were lots of comments about how the black guy was a 'lowly servant,' etc. It's important to remember that in those days, driving an automobile was difficult, and would have been considered a skill. If the man was a full-time chauffeur (which was likely) his job was that car in its entirety. Not just driving, but keeping it clean, and keeping it running. And maintaining a car like that would have been a daily chore. As we would think of it today, he was a combination chauffeur, mechanic, and detailer. My point is that he was a skilled worker with a respectable job, and he was probably being paid accordingly. Also it's kinda funny how he's excited to be on camera, but none of the family seem to care, and then he's kinda sad about that.
According to this link
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/garrett-morgan-patents-three-position-traffic-signal
Plot twist: the black guy in the video invented the 3 way traffic signal, he was tired of sticking his arm out!
On November 20, 1923, the U.S. Patent Office grants Patent No. 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman Garrett Morgan for his three-position traffic signal. Though Morgan’s was not the first traffic signal (that one had been installed in London in 1868), it was an important innovation nonetheless: By having a third position besides just “Stop” and “Go,” it regulated crossing vehicles more safely than earlier signals had.
Morgan, the child of two former slaves, was born in Kentucky in 1877. When he was just 14 years old, he moved north to Ohio to look for a job. First he worked as a handyman in Cincinnati; next he moved to Cleveland, where he worked as a sewing-machine repairman. In 1907, he opened his own repair shop, and in 1909 he added a garment shop to his operation. The business was an enormous success, and by 1920 Morgan had made enough money to start a newspaper, the Cleveland Call, which became one of the most important black newspapers in the nation.
Morgan was prosperous enough to have a car at a time when the streets were crowded with all manner of vehicles: Bicycles, horse-drawn delivery wagons, streetcars and pedestrians all shared downtown Cleveland’s narrow streets and clogged its intersections. There were manually operated traffic signals where major streets crossed one another, but they were not all that effective: Because they switched back and forth between Stop and Go with no interval in between, drivers had no time to react when the command changed. This led to many collisions between vehicles that both had the right of way when they entered the intersection. As the story goes, when Morgan witnessed an especially spectacular accident at an ostensibly regulated corner, he had an idea: If he designed an automated signal with an interim “warning” position—the ancestor of today’s yellow light—drivers would have time to clear the intersection before crossing traffic entered it.
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