Few people know that chips appeared in the 19th century thanks to the American tycoon Vanderbilt. He didn't like the fries at Moon's Lake Lodge in the Saratoga Springs suburb of New York. The chef of this restaurant, George Crum, wanting to play a trick on Vanderbilt, cut paper-thick potatoes, fried and served. Surprisingly, I liked the dish, and since that time they began to cook it constantly. According to legend, it happened back in 1853. In 1860, George Crum opened his own restaurant in the resort area. And what was this resort area?
Saratoga Springs is a resort famous for its healing springs. A fashionable vacation spot for Americans in the 19th century. Probably, everyone is interested to see how people rested in those days, and what surrounded them there. From the second half of the 19th century, it became fashionable to watch stereo photos, and they made a lot of them. Including about Saratoga Springs. Perhaps it was one of the forms of hidden advertising, since they filmed not only general views, but also various details of the interiors. And looking at these details, you involuntarily begin to understand that the resorts of the 19th century were no worse than modern ones. But by a strange coincidence, only springs remained from the old resort of Saratoga Springs, and those in an unrecognizable form. So, let's split the stereo photographs in half, slightly improve their quality (it's a joke, they are 150 or more years old), and start watching.
This is the train station. See how he is now and feel the difference. Although there was no Bolshevism in America, how can this fact be explained? However, from the photographs below, practically nothing has survived at the present time. And looking at these photos, more questions arise than answers.
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These are the lighting fixtures in the dining rooms (you heard right) at Saratoga Springs around the time George Crum opened his restaurant there. These are not gas lanterns - the shades of gas lamps are completely different. What power did these chandeliers consume and, most importantly, what source could provide it at that time? A mystery, however. But that is not all.
This is the lobby of the Grand Union Hotel, taken at various times from 1862 to 1891. As you can see, the lamps on the columns have evolved over this time from the similarity of candles on both sides of the columns to quite serious lamps on the four sides. As you can see, nowhere is there a single wire, only in the latter case switches of a strange button shape appeared on the column. And for some reason, under the pillars there are some incomprehensible night vases. Was it something to do with light? Probably not, but if we assume that there was some kind of aromatic substance that reacted to the electricity in the columns, like oil, then everything becomes clear.
Actually, similar lamps are also located in the arches on the hotel terrace, and even in the adjacent territory. Where does so much electrical power come from? However, such things are observed not only in hotels.
This is a simple veranda on one of the resort's buildings and also has chandeliers. Estimate the height of this veranda on an eye scale.
And this is the very Congress Spring building from which the veranda begins. As you can see, one of the columns is suspiciously thick, and on it there is a spire of an incomprehensible design as high as the veranda itself. The secret turned out to be simple - we again see one of the varieties of the atmospheric electricity receiver. And in the building itself there is the same column, equal in height to the first tier of the dome installation. The design of this building, despite its simplicity, provided some kind of functionality, and obviously not only for lighting. And what is the functionality? We'll come back to this later. By the way, one more little detail about lighting.
As you can see, there is only one balcony on the terrace of the Grand Hotel. There must have been a presidential suite there. Some strange jibs go under the roof of the terrace, only one of them comes from the balcony. What is it? This is clearly not a reinforcement of the structure, which makes no sense here at all. If you look closely, we see an ordinary balustrade, only slightly in a modified form - instead of a tip, the usual exit to the column. It is possible that in that column there was a cache with a substance that was placed in the tips on the balustrade pole. The status of the room apparently demanded that the power supply in it was at the proper level.
But the mysteries of Saratoga Springs don't end there. Let's move on to the healing springs themselves.
Here is the source of Geyser Spring. The jet beats somewhere upward, apparently, the water pressure there is strong and of natural origin. And what kind of flask is standing next to it?
How many have been in the spa salons (not very many times), I have never seen this. I saw something similar in Buryatia, in the resort of Goryachinsk - there boiling water flows directly from a crack in the rock, and if you keep your feet in it for at least half a minute, then you start running, as in your early youth. But there are no glass flasks there. What then heats the water to steam in this case? What is the secret of the side of this source? The suspicion that this steam comes out for inhalation, but something warms it up. This steam is taken from heated geyser water. Without heating, it would have turned out that there would have been puffs of steam near the geyser itself and it would have been impossible to photograph it. Alas, what was actually there, we no longer know, this source does not currently exist.
But further - more.
This is a common source of drinking water for those times (it is also in the main photo). Can anyone suggest the existence of something like this now? The water there rose above ground level and flowed in a thin stream, judging by the puddles, right into the lower point of the surrounding space. What force lifted the water up when there was a natural body of water very close to it with a level below this source? Another question is how the lamps burned on this source. Water and mains electricity in street installations were practically incompatible things for that time. And what's in the background?
This is the same music kiosk, with all its outfit, with vases and antennas. This device is mysterious in itself. How did it work? One veranda with a light bulb under the domes would be enough for the orchestra. Judging by the distance from the kiosk to the chairs in the background, people were seated more watching than listening. What to look at? Apparently, the glass windows on the drum of the kiosk were not without reason. Once again, the version comes to mind that light music and sound amplifiers were invented not in the 20th century, but much earlier. It is even difficult to imagine how it all looked in practice. It is not surprising that these kiosks have disappeared all over the world, and in Russia even their frames are practically not found.
This is the source of High Rock Congress Spring. Above the source itself there is a structure similar to a music kiosk, and inside it there is also an independent arched structure. What is this complexity for?
Inside there is a stone from which water seeps out. Anyone can pour this water from a makeshift stone container. What is pushing water through a stone? Most likely, the stone was placed here artificially, and the water rises similarly to the source discussed above. Nevertheless, this is how all the sources available at that time in the Saratoga Springs resort work.
Columbia Spring source.
Source Congress Hotel - Spring.
Source Congress Spring.
Source Hamilton Spring.
Source United States Spring.
Source Congress Park - Spring (in the background).
And everywhere the construction of sources is somewhat the same. A pavilion, and in most cases there is another pavilion inside according to the matryoshka pattern. And almost everywhere there are domes and vases with incomprehensible antennas. What are they there for?
This is a fountain inside the Congress Park Spring. There are strange artifacts on the railing of the fence. It would be understandable if they stood on the corner posts of the railing, as is done everywhere. But they stand asymmetrically, and the balusters themselves are not made clear from what and with different steps. Why such an incomprehensible construct?
Probably enough riddles and puzzles. We open the physics of Shcheglov sample of 1834.
Let us slightly modify our experience, and imagine that one of the poles of this source goes through the structures of the pavilion into the ground to the aquifer, then it immediately becomes clear why the water comes out above the surface of the earth. Both music kiosks and pavilions produced electricity, only at water sources it was used for several other purposes. By the way, similar sources on the technical device were used from China to America. In Bakhchisarai, for example, their remains can still be seen. As the electricity ran out, so the water ran out. Only nobody knows the real reason. However, in the same Saratoga Springs there were more serious designs.
And apparently for a reason all this was destroyed with one hand around the world.
P. S. Compare these photos with a photo of our Kislovodsk sample of the early 20th century. Produces about the same thing. Where did it all go?
Author: tech_dancer