LeGrand Lockwood, born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1820, went on to make a fortune in the railroad business. He was an enthusiastic adopter of the new technologies of his day. This talk, delivered at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, considers how Lockwood and his contemporaries thought about the future of technology. Hear the presentation at http://youtu.be/9A-KCQJ-GPI

1. LEGRAND
LOCKWOOD, EARLY
ADOPTER

2. Legrand Lockwood, Early
adopter
For the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT
Steven Lubar, Brown University April 2013

4. Norwalk, Connecticut, 1836
Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society

6. Phelps’ travellers guide through the
united states, 1850

7. Norwalk, Connecticut, 1850
Courtesy the Connecticut Historical Society

8. Morse and the telegraph, 1840s
Granger Collection

9. telegraph lines, proposed, 1857
Courtesy Library of Congress

10. The Transatlantic Cable, 1858
Courtesy Library of Congress

11. Henry David Thoreau, Walden;
or, Life in the Woods, 1854
Courtesy Library of Congress

12. Thoreau’s diaries and pencils
Courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum

13. CHAUNCEY THOMAS, The Crystal
Button, 1891
Courtesy Open Library

20. Edward S. Ellis, The Steam Man of
the Prairies, 1866

25. Spirit of Transportation
Karl Bitter, 1895 30th Street Station, Philadelpha

26. “Fifty Years from Now,” by Hugo
GernsbacK, 1925
San Antonio Light, Feb. 8, 1925

27. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, House of
the Seven Gables, 1851
Courtesy Open Library

28. “Terrors of the Telephone” - The
orator of the Future
1877

29. "Mr. A. Merger Hogg is taking a few days' much-needed rest at his country home"
1903
Charles Dana Gibson

30. Harpers Weekly
1908

31. “We’ll all be happy then,” 1911
Life Magazine, 1911

32. Syracuse Herald, June 8, 1919