My Grandparents James Devlin (b 16th September 1881 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, died 2nd April 1961 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland) and Mary Anne Egan (b 5th October 1886 at 51 St. Mary’s Wynd, Stirling, Scotland, died 7th November 1930 in the Royal Samaritan Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland).
They were married on 24th May 1910 in Bo’ness, West Lothian, Scotland and this picture was taken on their honeymoon in Cork, Ireland.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...