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The solar eclipse that changed America
In 1878, scientists from all over the US flocked to the American west to view a total eclipse of the sun. David Baron, the author of ‘American Eclipse’, says that after that science in the US was never quite the same.
(Archival image, Chicago Times, July 22, 1878)
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