Evolution of the term "boredom"

1. Introduced in the late 1st century in Ancient Rome as a Roman treadmill crane, the treadmill was initially used to lift or transport heavy objects.
2. In the 19th century, farmers used a treadmill based mechanism to better utilize the pulling power of a horse(coining the term hors...

People in 19th-century Britain used folk tales to adjust to the experience of city living. Folklore was continually updated. It expressed concerns about urban development, the threat of strangers, and a shrinking sense of community as people no longer knew one another.

In Victorian Lond...

• Before video-chat and long-distance phone calls, written correspondence was used to exchange meaningful information. The goal was to write about the most important things that had happened since the last letter.
• Although the telephone was invented in the mid-19th century, it was on...