Library of Congress technicians examining battered donated nitrate reels identified Gugusse and the Automaton, a long-lost nineteenth-century Georges Méliès film about a magician battling…

The Harpers Ferry engine house where John Brown's raid ended was dismantled for the 1893 Chicago world's fair and moved repeatedly before returning near its original site.

Railway Mail Service trains used catcher arms to snatch waiting mail pouches from trackside cranes at speed while clerks kicked the town's incoming bag off the moving car.