Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...(1783-1872), an Irish immigrant who settled in Philadelphia, was the first American patentee of a graduated galvanic battery with insulated poles. Coad was a noted teacher and lecturer of medicine and the natural sciences, but gained wider notoriety after he invented and patented his galvanic battery in March 1842. The
Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters
...he Sisters during the epidemic of influenza, October, 1918, (Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1919), 3-6. [8] Ibid., 7. [9] Ibid., 21. [10] Ibid., 24. [11] Ibid., 26 & 31. [12] Letter from Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania to the Right Reverbed Dougherty on November 25, 1918. SB-10,
Irish Land War
...an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and the American Civil War created an economic depression that spread to Ireland. This depression, combined with the collapse of the potato crop and a poultry cholera epidemic, led to a great deal of tenants falling behind or not being
Papal Infallibility
...was also displayed is a contemporary cartoon by Thomas Nast, which showed American Catholics literally tied to the Pope at the hip. One of the papers the pope holds reads "oath of allegiance to the Pope." Also in the background, the Germans can be seen cutting their attachment to Rome,