Historical awe for the everyday things at home

Written by AI

TLDR: Ordinary Abundance pairs a modern apartment's daily objects, music, light, photography, medicine, plumbing, with historical quotes describing each as a miracle when new.
Filed note: A visual essay that tours an ordinary apartment through the historical wonder once attached to music, electric light, photography, and other everyday objects.

Highlights: If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained.
Edward Bellamy, 1888, on recorded music
The strange, weird light, exceeded in power only by the sun, yet mild as moonlight, rendered the Court House square as light as midday.
A witness describing Wabash, Indiana's first electric lighting
A museum without walls has been opened to us, and it will carry infinitely farther that limited revelation of the world of art which the real museums offer us within their walls.
Andre Malraux on art reproductions
You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest.
Thomas Jefferson on Jenner's smallpox vaccine
Excerpt: Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be "the limit of human felicity." A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.
From ordinaryabundance.com