The Historic Preservationist

This dissertation on The Age of Enlightenment takes us forth to all the major social, economical and political forces that propelled the 18th century to a new rebirth in the world.

This dissertation on the Age of Enlightenment takes us forth to all the major social, economical and political forces that propelled the 18th century to a new rebirth in the world.

A short dissertation of Franklin as post master general and his many advancements he bestowed on the postal system.

The story of John Harrison’s trials and tribulations in producing a marine time keeper for the exact measurement of longitude in the 18th century.

This episode explores the term corporation which means guilds in 18th century French furniture making. It extrapolates in requirements and protections of the guilds juxtapositioning the standing of the free artisans

This episode canvases the root causes and effects of the term FIGURE when referring to the sought after Visual appeal of a timber’s surface.

This episode describes various products-window panes and bottles produced at the Wistarburgh facility with an additional elaboration with table glass fixtures produced and the conditions that the typical Wistarburgh worker entailed.

This episode walks through the journey of entrepreneur Casper Wistar who created the first successful flat glass manufactury in the American colonies. It expounds on his successes and the social economic factors that gave rise to the glass industry.

Furniture scholar Gregg Perry walks us through all the delineating factors that denote and connote the attributes of American furniture including stylistic trends, political, and socio-economic factors that aided to blend one period to another.