Learn History Through Fiction: Telling Time in the Dark

At the 1910 Chicago Electrical Show, the hot new gadget was a “time-a-phone” which allowed a person to tell time in the dark by the number of chimes for the hour, gongs for the quarter-hour, and a high pitched bell for minutes. Read more Chicago history in Tazia and Gemma (see NOVELS).

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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